Light Hearted Author Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAAFGHHBADD IJKLMNOPAMAQKARSD AKAADKKKAKKK SAHTTRTUQVK DKAThe birches are mad with green points | A |
the wood's edge is burning with their green | B |
burning seething No no no | C |
The birches are opening their leaves one | D |
by one Their delicate leaves unfold cold | E |
and separate one by one Slender tassels | A |
hang swaying from the delicate branch tips | A |
Oh I cannot say it There is no word | F |
Black is split at once into flowers In | G |
every bog and ditch flares of | H |
small fire white flowers Agh | H |
the birches are mad mad with their green | B |
The world is gone torn into shreds | A |
with this blessing What have I left undone | D |
that I should have undertaken | D |
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O my brother you redfaced living man | I |
ignorant stupid whose feet are upon | J |
this same dirt that I touch and eat | K |
We are alone in this terror alone | L |
face to face on this road you and I | M |
wrapped by this flame | N |
Let the polished plows stay idle | O |
their gloss already on the black soil | P |
But that face of yours | A |
Answer me I will clutch you I | M |
will hug you grip you I will poke my face | A |
into your face and force you to see me | Q |
Take me in your arms tell me the commonest | K |
thing that is in your mind to say | A |
say anything I will understand you | R |
It is the madness of the birch leaves opening | S |
cold one by one | D |
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My rooms will receive me But my rooms | A |
are no longer sweet spaces where comfort | K |
is ready to wait on me with its crumbs | A |
A darkness has brushed them The mass | A |
of yellow tulips in the bowl is shrunken | D |
Every familiar object is changed and dwarfed | K |
I am shaken broken against a might | K |
that splits comfort blows apart | K |
my careful partitions crushes my house | A |
and leaves me with shrinking heart | K |
and startled empty eyes peering out | K |
into a cold world | K |
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In the spring I would be drunk In the spring | S |
I would be drunk and lie forgetting all things | A |
Your face Give me your face Yang Kue Fei | H |
your hands your lips to drink | T |
Give me your wrists to drink | T |
I drag you I am drowned in you you | R |
overwhelm me Drink | T |
Save me The shad bush is in the edge | U |
of the clearing The yards in a fury | Q |
of lilac blossoms are driving me mad with terror | V |
Drink and lie forgetting the world | K |
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And coldly the birch leaves are opening one by one | D |
Coldly I observe them and wait for the end | K |
And it ends | A |
William Carlos Williams
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