Smell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEDFGFHFBB| Oh strong ridged and deeply hollowed | A |
| nose of mine what will you not be smelling | B |
| What tactless asses we are you and I boney nose | C |
| always indiscriminate always unashamed | D |
| and now it is the souring flowers of the bedreggled | D |
| poplars a festering pulp on the wet earth | E |
| beneath them With what deep thirst | D |
| we quicken our desires | F |
| to that rank odor of a passing springtime | G |
| Can you not be decent Can you not reserve your ardors | F |
| for something less unlovely What girl will care | H |
| for us do you think if we continue in these ways | F |
| Must you taste everything Must you know everything | B |
| Must you have a part in everything | B |
William Carlos Williams
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