Accountability Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFAGH IJKLMCNCOP| Cold nights outside the taverns in Wyoming | A |
| pickups and big semis lounge idling letting their | B |
| haunches twitch now and then in gusts of powder snow | C |
| their owners inside for hours forgetting as well | D |
| as they can the miles the circling plains the still town | E |
| that connects to nothing but cold and space and a few | F |
| stray ribbons of pavement icy guides to nothing | A |
| but bigger towns and other taverns that glitter and wait | G |
| Denver Cheyenne | H |
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| Hibernating in the library of the school on the hill | I |
| a few pieces by Thomas Aquinas or Saint Teresa | J |
| and the fragmentary explorations of people like Alfred | K |
| North Whitehead crouch and wait amid research folders | L |
| on energy and military recruitment posters glimpsed | M |
| by the hard stars The school bus by the door a yellow | C |
| mound clangs open and shut as the wind finds a loose | N |
| door and worries it all night letting the hollow | C |
| students count off and break up and blow away | O |
| over the frozen ground | P |
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