In Memoriam Mae Noblitt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHI DJC KCC CCF ECL MCN CNM OCP CCP KCQ RSC| This is just a place | A |
| we go around distanced | B |
| yearly in a star's | C |
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| atmosphere turning | D |
| daily into and out of | E |
| direct light and | F |
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| slanting through the | G |
| quadrant seasons deep | H |
| space begins at our | I |
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| heels nearly rousing | D |
| us loose we look up | J |
| or out so high sight's | C |
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| silk almost draws us away | K |
| this is just a place | C |
| currents worry themselves | C |
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| coiled and free in airs | C |
| and oceans water picks | C |
| up mineral shadow and | F |
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| plasm into billions of | E |
| designs frames trees | C |
| grains bacteria but | L |
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| is love a reality we | M |
| made here ourselves | C |
| and grief did we design | N |
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| that or do these | C |
| like currents whine | N |
| in and out among us merely | M |
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| as we arrive and go | O |
| this is just a place | C |
| the reality we agree with | P |
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| that agrees with us | C |
| outbounding this arrives | C |
| to touch joining with | P |
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| us from far away | K |
| our home which defines | C |
| us is elsewhere but not | Q |
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| so far away we have | R |
| forgotten it | S |
| this is just a place | C |
A. R. Ammons
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