For A Coming Extinction Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHFFIJKL MNEOPQR STUVWEXYZDA2| Gray whale | A |
| Now that we are sinding you to The End | B |
| That great god | C |
| Tell him | D |
| That we who follow you invented forgiveness | E |
| And forgive nothing | F |
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| I write as though you could understand | G |
| And I could say it | H |
| One must always pretend something | F |
| Among the dying | F |
| When you have left the seas nodding on their stalks | I |
| Empty of you | J |
| Tell him that we were made | K |
| On another day | L |
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| The bewilderment will diminish like an echo | M |
| Winding along your inner mountains | N |
| Unheard by us | E |
| And find its way out | O |
| Leaving behind it the future | P |
| Dead | Q |
| And ours | R |
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| When you will not see again | S |
| The whale calves trying the light | T |
| Consider what you will find in the black garden | U |
| And its court | V |
| The sea cows the Great Auks the gorillas | W |
| The irreplaceable hosts ranged countless | E |
| And fore ordaining as stars | X |
| Our sacrifices | Y |
| Join your work to theirs | Z |
| Tell him | D |
| That it is we who are important | A2 |
William Stanley Merwin
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