The Sun Underfoot Among The Sundews Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFDGHHAIJKHLMNOP JJHAPKGHHHJJAQHAH| An ingenuity too astonishing | A |
| to be quite fortuitous is | B |
| this bog full of sundews sphagnum | C |
| lines and shaped like a teacup | D |
| A step | E |
| down and you're into it a | F |
| wilderness swallows you up | D |
| ankle then knee then midriff | G |
| to shoulder deep in wetfooted | H |
| understory an overhead | H |
| spruce tamarack horizon hinting | A |
| you'll never get out of here | I |
| But the sun | J |
| among the sundews down there | K |
| is so bright an underfoot | H |
| webwork of carnivorous rubies | L |
| a star swarm thick as the gnats | M |
| they're set to catch delectable | N |
| double faced cockleburs each | O |
| hair tip a sticky mirror | P |
| afire with sunlight a million | J |
| of them and again a million | J |
| each mirror a trap set to | H |
| unhand believing | A |
| that either | P |
| a First Cause said once 'Let there | K |
| be sundews ' and there were or they've | G |
| made their way here unaided | H |
| other than by that backhand round | H |
| about refusal to assume responsibility | H |
| known as Natural Selection | J |
| But the sun | J |
| underfoot is so dazzling | A |
| down there among the sundews | Q |
| there is so much light | H |
| in that cup that looking | A |
| you start to fall upward | H |
Amy Clampitt
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