Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJ KLLMLL NO PQJRLL| I know if I find you I will have to leave the earth and go on out | A |
| over the sea marshes and the brant in bays | B |
| and over the hills of tall hickory | C |
| and over the crater lakes and canyons | D |
| and on up through the spheres of diminishing air | E |
| past the blackset noctilucent clouds | F |
| where one wants to stop and look | G |
| way past all the light diffusions and bombardments | H |
| up farther than the loss of sight | I |
| into the unseasonal undifferentiated empty stark | J |
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| And I know if I find you I will have to stay with the earth | K |
| inspecting with thin tools and ground eyes | L |
| trusting the microvilli sporangia and simplest coelenterates | L |
| and praying for a nerve cell | M |
| with all the soul of my chemical reactions | L |
| and going right on down where the eye sees only traces | L |
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| You are everywhere partial and entire | N |
| You are on the inside of everything and on the outside | O |
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| I walk down the path down the hill where the sweetgum | P |
| has begun to ooze spring sap at the cut | Q |
| and I see how the bark cracks and winds like no other bark | J |
| chasmal to my ant soul running up and down | R |
| and if I find you I must go out deep into your far resolutions | L |
| and if I find you I must stay here with the separate leaves | L |
A. R. Ammons
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