Vehicles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDEFGHIJKLMNNOPNHKN QNRSTU| A | |
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| This is a place on the way after the distances | B |
| can no longer be kept straight here in this dark corner | C |
| of the barn a mound of wheels has convened along | D |
| raveling courses to stop in a single moment | E |
| and lie down as still as the chariots of the Pharaohs | F |
| some in pairs that rolled as one over the same roads | G |
| to the end and never touched each other until they | H |
| arrived here some that broke by themselves and were left | I |
| until they could be repaired some that went only | J |
| to occasions before my time and some that have spun | K |
| across other countries through uncounted summers | L |
| now they go all the way back together the tall | M |
| cobweb hung models of galaxies in their rings | N |
| of rust leaning against the stone hail from Rene's | N |
| manure cart the year he wanted to store them here | O |
| because there was nobody left who could make them like that | P |
| in case he should need them and there are the carriage wheels | N |
| that Merot said would be worth a lot some day | H |
| and the rim of the spare from bald Bleret's green Samson | K |
| that rose like Borobudur out of the high grass | N |
| behind the old house by the river where he stuffed | Q |
| mattresses in the morning sunlight and the hens | N |
| scavenged around his shoes in the days when the black | R |
| top hat sedan still towered outside Sandeau's cow barn | S |
| with velvet upholstery and sconces for flowers and room | T |
| for two calves instead of the back seat when their time came | U |
William Stanley Merwin
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