Some Last Questions Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGFHIJKLHMNMLOP QRST| What is the head | A |
| A Ash | B |
| What are the eyes | C |
| A The wells have fallen in and have | D |
| Inhabitants | E |
| What are the feet | F |
| A Thumbs left after the auction | G |
| No what are the feet | F |
| A Under them the impossible road is moving | H |
| Down which the broken necked mice push | I |
| Balls of blood with their noses | J |
| What is the tongue | K |
| A The black coat that fell off the wall | L |
| With sleeves trying to say something | H |
| What are the hands | M |
| A Paid | N |
| No what are the hands | M |
| A Climbing back down the museum wall | L |
| To their ancestors the extinct shrews that will | O |
| Have left a message | P |
| What is the silence | Q |
| A As though it had a right to move | R |
| Who are the compatriots | S |
| A They make the stars of bone | T |
William Stanley Merwin
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