These Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CAC ADE FGA HAI AJK LAE MAN OAA PQR SAT UOV| are the desolate dark weeks | A |
| when nature in its barrenness | A |
| equals the stupidity of man | B |
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| The year plunges into night | C |
| and the heart plunges | A |
| lower than night | C |
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| to an empty windswept place | A |
| without sun stars or moon | D |
| but a peculiar light as of thought | E |
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| that spins a dark fire | F |
| whirling upon itself until | G |
| in the cold it kindles | A |
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| to make a man aware of nothing | H |
| that he knows not loneliness | A |
| itself Not a ghost but | I |
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| would be embraced emptiness | A |
| despair They | J |
| whine and whistle among | K |
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| the flashes and booms of war | L |
| houses of whose rooms | A |
| the cold is greater than can be thought | E |
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| the people gone that we loved | M |
| the beds lying empty the couches | A |
| damp the chairs unused | N |
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| Hide it away somewhere | O |
| out of mind let it get to roots | A |
| and grow unrelated to jealous | A |
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| ears and eyes for itself | P |
| In this mine they come to dig all | Q |
| Is this the counterfoil to sweetest | R |
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| music The source of poetry that | S |
| seeing the clock stopped says | A |
| The clock has stopped | T |
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| that ticked yesterday so well | U |
| and hears the sound of lakewater | O |
| splashing that is now stone | V |
William Carlos Williams
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