Battledore And Shuttlecock Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The shuttlecock soars upward	A
In a parabola of whiteness	B
Turns	C
And sinks to a perfect arc	D
Plat the battledore strikes it	E
And it rises again	F
Without haste	G
Winged and curving	H
Tracing its white flight	I
Against the clipped hemlock trees	J
Plat	I
Up again	F
Orange and sparkling with sun	K
Rounding under the blue sky	L
Dropping	H
Fading to grey green	M
In the shadow of the coned hemlocks	J
Ninety one Ninety two Ninety three	N
The arms of the little girls	J
Come up and up	O
Precisely	N
Like mechanical toys	J
The battledores beat at nothing	H
And toss the dazzle of snow	P
Off their parchment drums	J
Ninety four Plat	I
Ninety five Plat	I
Back and forth	Q
Goes the shuttlecock	H
Icicle white	I
Leaping at the sharp edged clouds	J
Overturning	H
Falling	H
Down	R
And down	R
Tinctured with pink	H
From the upthrusting shine	S
Of Oriental poppies	J
	-
The little girls sway to the counting rhythm	T
Left foot	I
Right foot	I
Plat Plat	I
Yellow heat twines round the handles of the battledores	J
The parchment cracks with dryness	J
But the shuttlecock	H
Swings slowly into the ice blue sky	H
Heaving up on the warm air	U
Like a foam bubble on a wave	V
With feathers slanted and sustaining	H
Higher	W
Until the earth turns beneath it	I
Poised and swinging	H
With all the garden flowing beneath it	I
Scarlet and blue and purple and white	I
Blurred colour reflections in rippled water	W
Changing streaming	H
For the moment that Stella takes to lift her arm	X
Then the shuttlecock relinquishes	J
Bows	J
Descends	J
And the sharp blue spears of the air	U
Thrust it to earth	Y
	-
Again it mounts	J
Stepping up on the rising scents of flowers	J
Buoyed up and under by the shining heat	I
Above the foxgloves	J
Above the guelder roses	J
Above the greenhouse glitter	W
Till the shafts of cooler air	U
Meet it	I
Deflect it	I
Reject it	I
Then down	R
Down	R
Past the greenhouse	J
Past the guelder rose bush	Z
Past the foxgloves	J
	-
Ninety nine Stella's battledore springs to the impact	I
Plunk Like the snap of a taut string	H
Oh Minna	A2
The shuttlecock drops zigzagedly	N
Out of orbit	I
Hits the path	B2
And rolls over quite still	N
Dead white feathers	J
With a weight at the end	I

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