An Aquarium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCADEAFGHFAAAAAAA ADIAEEAAAGGGJKGDAAEA HEHAAALAMAEAEEMA EAAAA| Streaks of green and yellow iridescence | A |
| Silver shiftings | A |
| Rings veering out of rings | A |
| Silver gold | B |
| Grey green opaqueness sliding down | C |
| With sharp white bubbles | A |
| Shooting and dancing | D |
| Flinging quickly outward | E |
| Nosing the bubbles | A |
| Swallowing them | F |
| Fish | G |
| Blue shadows against silver saffron water | H |
| The light rippling over them | F |
| In steel bright tremors | A |
| Outspread translucent fins | A |
| Flute fold and relapse | A |
| The threaded light prints through them on the pebbles | A |
| In scarcely tarnished twinklings | A |
| Curving of spotted spines | A |
| Slow up shifts | A |
| Lazy convolutions | A |
| Then a sudden swift straightening | D |
| And darting below | I |
| Oblique grey shadows | A |
| Athwart a pale casement | E |
| Roped and curled | E |
| Green man eating eels | A |
| Slumber in undulate rhythms | A |
| With crests laid horizontal on their backs | A |
| Barred fish | G |
| Striped fish | G |
| Uneven disks of fish | G |
| Slip slide whirl turn | J |
| And never touch | K |
| Metallic blue fish | G |
| With fins wide and yellow and swaying | D |
| Like Oriental fans | A |
| Hold the sun in their bellies | A |
| And glow with light | E |
| Blue brilliance cut by black bars | A |
| An oblong pane of straw coloured shimmer | H |
| Across it in a tangent | E |
| A smear of rose black silver | H |
| Short twists and upstartings | A |
| Rose black in a setting of bubbles | A |
| Sunshine playing between red and black flowers | A |
| On a blue and gold lawn | L |
| Shadows and polished surfaces | A |
| Facets of mauve and purple | M |
| A constant modulation of values | A |
| Shaft shaped | E |
| With green bead eyes | A |
| Thick nosed | E |
| Heliotrope coloured | E |
| Swift spots of chrysolite and coral | M |
| In the midst of green pearl amethyst irradiations | A |
| - | |
| Outside | E |
| A willow tree flickers | A |
| With little white jerks | A |
| And long blue waves | A |
| Rise steadily beyond the outer islands | A |
Amy Lowell
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