Corsons Inlet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEE F GEHE E IIIEIE AIAJEIHKHIEIAE LIEIIIMI IENII EOP EAQI RPSETU PVWHETIEXEI YMIFEEX EIIEEHZEFA2IIIB2EIHA 2 OXC2A2EIPA2ID2LI EE2F2IA2ME G2EE IYI H2EJA2AEHEI2

I went for a walk over the dunes again this morningA
to the seaB
then turned right alongC
the surfD
rounded a naked headlandE
and returnedE
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along the inlet shoreF
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it was muggy sunny the wind from the sea steady and highG
crisp in the running sandE
some breakthroughs of sunH
but after a bitE
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continuous overcastE
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the walk liberating I was released from formsI
from the perpendicularsI
straight lines blocks boxes bindsI
of thoughtE
into the hues shadings rises flowing bends and blendsI
of sightE
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I allow myself eddies of meaningA
yield to a direction of significanceI
runningA
like a stream through the geography of my workJ
you can findE
in my sayingsI
swerves of actionH
like the inlet's cutting edgeK
there are dunes of motionH
organizations of grass white sandy paths of remembranceI
in the overall wandering of mirroring mindE
but Overall is beyond me is the sum of these eventsI
I cannot draw the ledger I cannot keep the accountingA
beyond the accountE
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in nature there are few sharp lines there are areas ofL
primroseI
more or less dispersedE
disorderly orders of bayberry between the rowsI
of dunesI
irregular swamps of reedsI
though not reeds alone but grass bayberry yarrow allM
predominantly reedsI
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I have reached no conclusions have erected no boundariesI
shutting out and shutting in separating insideE
from outside I haveN
drawn no linesI
asI
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manifold events of sandE
change the dune's shape that will not be the same shapeO
tomorrowP
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so I am willing to go along to acceptE
the becomingA
thought to stake off no beginnings or ends establishQ
no wallsI
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by transitions the land falls from grassy dunes to creekR
to undercreek but there are no lines thoughP
change in that transition is clearS
as any sharpness but sharpness spread outE
allowed to occur over a wider rangeT
than mental lines can keepU
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the moon was full last night today low tide was lowP
black shoals of mussels exposed to the riskV
of airW
and earlier of sunH
waved in and out with the waterline waterline inexactE
caught always in the event of changeT
a young mottled gull stood free on the shoalsI
and ateE
to vomiting another gull squawking possession cracked a crabX
picked out the entrails swallowed the soft shelled legs a ruddyE
turnstone running in to snatch leftover bitsI
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risk is full every living thing inY
siege the demand is life to keep life the smallM
white blacklegged egret how beautiful quietly stalks and spearsI
the shallows darts to shoreF
to stab what I couldn'tE
see against the black mudflats a frightenedE
fiddler crabX
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the news to my left over the dunes andE
reeds and bayberry clumps wasI
fall thousands of tree swallowsI
gathering for flightE
an order heldE
in constant change a congregationH
rich with entropy nevertheless separable noticeableZ
as one eventE
not chaos preparations forF
flight from winterA2
cheet cheet cheet cheet wings rifling the green clumpsI
beaksI
at the bayberriesI
a perception full of wind flight curveB2
soundE
the possibility of rule as the sum of rulelessnessI
the field of actionH
with moving incalculable centerA2
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in the smaller view order tight with shapeO
blue tiny flowers on a leafless weed carapace of crabX
snail shellC2
pulsations of orderA2
in the bellies of minnows orders swallowedE
broken down transferred through membranesI
to strengthen larger orders but in the large view noP
lines or changeless shapes the working in and out togetherA2
and against of millions of events thisI
so that I makeD2
no form ofL
formlessnessI
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orders as summaries as outcomes of actions overrideE
or in some way result not predictably seeing me gainE2
the top of a duneF2
the swallowsI
could take flight some other fields of bayberryA2
could enter fallM
berryless and there is serenityE
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no arranged terror no forcing of image planG2
or thoughtE
no propaganda no humbling of reality to preceptE
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terror pervades but is not arranged all possibilitiesI
of escape open no route shut except inY
the sudden loss of all routesI
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I see narrow orders limited tightness but willH2
not run to that easy victoryE
still around the looser wider forces workJ
I will tryA2
to fasten into order enlarging grasps of disorder wideningA
scope but enjoying the freedom thatE
Scope eludes my grasp that there is no finality of visionH
that I have perceived nothing completelyE
that tomorrow a new walk is a new walkI2

A. R. Ammons



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