Beach Glass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFGHBIBJBCBKLMN NOGBBBPBBBQBRSGBTUBV BOCWBBX| While you walk the water's edge | A |
| turning over concepts | B |
| I can't envision the honking buoy | C |
| serves notice that at any time | D |
| the wind may change | E |
| the reef bell clatters | B |
| its treble monotone deaf as Cassandra | F |
| to any note but warning The ocean | G |
| cumbered by no business more urgent | H |
| than keeping open old accounts | B |
| that never balanced | I |
| goes on shuffling its millenniums | B |
| of quartz granite and basalt | J |
| It behaves | B |
| toward the permutations of novelty | C |
| driftwood and shipwreck last night's | B |
| beer cans spilt oil the coughed up | K |
| residue of plastic with random | L |
| impartiality playing catch or tag | M |
| ot touch last like a terrier | N |
| turning the same thing over and over | N |
| over and over For the ocean nothing | O |
| is beneath consideration | G |
| The houses | B |
| of so many mussels and periwinkles | B |
| have been abandoned here it's hopeless | B |
| to know which to salvage Instead | P |
| I keep a lookout for beach glass | B |
| amber of Budweiser chrysoprase | B |
| of Almad n and Gallo lapis | B |
| by way of no getting around it | Q |
| I'm afraid Phillips' | B |
| Milk of Magnesia with now and then a rare | R |
| translucent turquoise or blurred amethyst | S |
| of no known origin | G |
| The process | B |
| goes on forever they came from sand | T |
| they go back to gravel | U |
| along with treasuries | B |
| of Murano the buttressed | V |
| astonishments of Chartres | B |
| which even now are readying | O |
| for being turned over and over as gravely | C |
| and gradually as an intellect | W |
| engaged in the hazardous | B |
| redefinition of structures | B |
| no one has yet looked at | X |
Amy Clampitt
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