Rogue Elephant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EF GH IJ KL DD MN OP QD RS KT ET UV QG WX| The reason to be autonomous is to stand there | A |
| a cleared instrument ready to act to search | B |
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| the moral realm and actual conditions for what | C |
| needs to be done and to do it fine the | D |
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| best if it works out but if like a gun it | E |
| comes in handy to the wrong choice why then | F |
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| you see the danger in the effective better | G |
| then an autonomy that stands and looks about | H |
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| negotiating nothing the supreme indifferences | I |
| is anything to be gained where as much is lost | J |
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| and if for every action there is an equal and | K |
| opposite reaction has the loss been researched | L |
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| equally with the gain you can see how the | D |
| milling actions of millions could come to a | D |
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| buzzard like glide as from a coincidental | M |
| warm bottom of water stuck between chilled | N |
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| peaks it is not so easy to say OK go on | O |
| out and act who doing what to what or | P |
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| whom just a minute should the bunker be | Q |
| bombed if it stores gas should all the | D |
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| rattlers die just because they rattle if I | R |
| hear the young gentleman vomiter roaring down | S |
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| the hall in the men's room should I go and | K |
| inquire of him reducing him to my care no | T |
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| wonder the great sayers who say nothing sit | E |
| about in inaccessible states of mind no | T |
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| wonder still wisdom and catatonia appear to | U |
| exchange places occasionally but if anything | V |
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| were easy our easy choices soon would carry | Q |
| away our ignorance with the world better | G |
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| let the mixed up mix and let the surface shine | W |
| with all the possibilities each in itself | X |
A. R. Ammons
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