Poetics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJ KL MNO PQC DRMJMS| I look for the way | A |
| things will turn | B |
| out spiralling from a center | C |
| the shape | D |
| things will take to come forth in | E |
| - | |
| so that the birch tree white | F |
| touched black at branches | G |
| will stand out | H |
| wind glittering | I |
| totally its apparent self | J |
| - | |
| I look for the forms | K |
| things want to come as | L |
| - | |
| from what black wells of possibility | M |
| how a thing will | N |
| unfold | O |
| - | |
| not the shape on paper though | P |
| that too but the | Q |
| uninterfering means on paper | C |
| - | |
| not so much looking for the shape | D |
| as being available | R |
| to any shape that may be | M |
| summoning itself | J |
| through me | M |
| from the self not mine but ours | S |
A. R. Ammons
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