Before The Flood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDAAAAAEFGHFIJAJI KAEADLHME| Why did he promise me | A |
| that we would build ourselves | B |
| an ark all by ourselves | B |
| out in back of the house | C |
| on New York Avenue | D |
| in Union City New Jersey | A |
| to the singing of the streetcars | A |
| after the story | A |
| of Noah whom nobody | A |
| believed about the waters | A |
| that would rise over everything | E |
| when I told my father | F |
| I wanted us to build | G |
| an ark of our own there | H |
| in the back yard under | F |
| the kitchen could we do that | I |
| he told me that we could | J |
| I want to I said and will we | A |
| he promised me that we would | J |
| why did he promise that | I |
| I wanted us to start then | K |
| nobody will believe us | A |
| I said that we are building | E |
| an ark because the rains | A |
| are coming and that was true | D |
| nobody ever believed | L |
| we would build an ark there | H |
| nobody would believe | M |
| that the waters were coming | E |
William Stanley Merwin
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