When You Go Away Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCD EFGHIJK| When you go away the wind clicks around to the north | A |
| The painters work all day but at sundown the paint falls | B |
| Showing the black walls | B |
| The clock goes back to striking the same hour | C |
| That has no place in the years | D |
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| And at night wrapped in the bed of ashes | E |
| In one breath I wake | F |
| It is the time when the beards of the dead get their growth | G |
| I remember that I am falling | H |
| That I am the reason | I |
| And that my words are the garment of what I shall never be | J |
| Like the tucked sleeve of a one armed boy | K |
William Stanley Merwin
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