The Horse Show Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEF GHIJKLM NLOPQRS RHTBIOU VIWXYZA2 BVTB2VQA2| Constantly near you I never in my entire | A |
| sixty four years knew you so well as yesterday | B |
| or half so well We talked you were never | A |
| so lucid so disengaged from all exigencies | C |
| of place and time We talked of ourselves | D |
| intimately a thing never heard between us | E |
| How long have we waited almost a hundred years | F |
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| You said Unless there is some spark some | G |
| spirit we keep within ourselves a life a | H |
| continuing life's impossible and it is all | I |
| we have There is no other life only the one | J |
| The world of the spirits that come afterward | K |
| is the same as our own just like you sitting | L |
| there they come and talk to me just the same | M |
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| They come to bother us Why I said I don't | N |
| know Perhaps to find out what we are doing | L |
| Jealous do you think I don't know I | O |
| don't know why they should want to come back | P |
| I was reading about some men who had been | Q |
| buried under a mountain I said to her and | R |
| one of them came back after two months | S |
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| digging himself out It was in Switzerland | R |
| you remember Of course I remember The | H |
| villagers tho't it was a ghost coming down | T |
| to complain They were frightened They | B |
| do come she said what you call | I |
| my 'visions ' I talk to them just as I | O |
| am talking to you I see them plainly | U |
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| Oh if I could only read You don't know | V |
| what adjustments I have made All | I |
| I can do is to try to live over again | W |
| what I knew when your brother and you | X |
| were children but I can't always succeed | Y |
| Tell me about the horse show I have | Z |
| been waiting all week to hear about it | A2 |
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| Mother darling I wasn't able to get away | B |
| Oh that's too bad It was just a show | V |
| they make the horses walk up and down | T |
| to judge them by their form Oh is that | B2 |
| all I tho't it was something else Oh | V |
| they jump and run too I wish you had been | Q |
| there I was so interested to hear about it | A2 |
William Carlos Williams
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