Brought From Beyond Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJHK FCLM NKOP QRST OSSO OOUH| The magpie and the bowerbird its odd | A |
| predilection unheard of by Marco Polo | B |
| when he came upon high in Badakhshan | C |
| that blue stone s | D |
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| embedded glint of pyrites like the dance | E |
| of light on water or of angels | F |
| the surface tension of the Absolute | G |
| on nothing | H |
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| turned by processes already ancient | I |
| into pigment ultramarine brought from | J |
| beyond the water it s the seeming | H |
| color of | K |
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| and of the berries blooms and pebbles | F |
| finickingly garnishing an avian | C |
| shrine or bower with the rarest hue | L |
| in nature | M |
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| whatever nature is the magpie s eye for | N |
| glitter from the clenched fist of | K |
| the Mesozoic folding the creek sands | O |
| the mine shaft | P |
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| the siftings and burnishings the ingot | Q |
| the pagan artifact to propagate | R |
| the faith to find the metal unearth it | S |
| hoard it up | T |
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| to by the gilding of basilicas | O |
| transmute it O magpie O bowerbird | S |
| O Marco Polo and Coronado where do | S |
| these things these | O |
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| fabrications come from the holy places | O |
| ark and altarpiece the aureoles | O |
| the seraphim and underneath it all | U |
| the howling | H |
Amy Clampitt
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