Gradual Clearing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEFFEGFHIJFKLMM NOPEQR| Late in the day the fog | A |
| wrung itself out like a sponge | B |
| in glades of rain | C |
| sieving the half invisible | D |
| cove with speartips | E |
| then in a lifting | F |
| of wisps and scarves of smoke rings | E |
| from about the islands disclosing | F |
| what had been wavering | F |
| fishnet pliss as a smoothness | E |
| of peau de soie or just ironed | G |
| percale with a tatting | F |
| of foam out where the rocks are | H |
| the sheened no color of it | I |
| the bandings of platinum | J |
| and magnesium suffusing | F |
| minute by minute with clandestine | K |
| rose and violet with opaline | L |
| nuance of milkweed a texture | M |
| not to be spoken of above a whisper | M |
| began all along the horizon | N |
| gradually to unseal | O |
| like the lip of a cave | P |
| or of a cavernous | E |
| single pearl | Q |
| engendering seashell | R |
Amy Clampitt
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