Gravelly Run Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAE FGGHH IJKLM NOPQ RC STUVVWVXI don't know somehow it seems sufficient | A |
to see and hear whatever coming and going is | B |
losing the self to the victory | C |
of stones and trees | D |
of bending sandpit lakes crescent | A |
round groves of dwarf pine | E |
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for it is not so much to know the self | F |
as to know it as it is known | G |
by galaxy and cedar cone | G |
as if birth had never found it | H |
and death could never end it | H |
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the swamp's slow water comes | I |
down Gravelly Run fanning the long | J |
stone held algal | K |
hair and narrowing roils between | L |
the shoulders of the highway bridge | M |
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holly grows on the banks in the woods there | N |
and the cedars' gothic clustered | O |
spires could make | P |
green religion in winter bones | Q |
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so I look and reflect but the air's glass | R |
jail seals each thing in its entity | C |
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no use to make any philosophies here | S |
I see no | T |
god in the holly hear no song from | U |
the snowbroken weeds Hegel is not the winter | V |
yellow in the pines the sunlight has never | V |
heard of trees surrendered self among | W |
unwelcoming forms stranger | V |
hoist your burdens get on down the road | X |
A. R. Ammons
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