In A Time Of Dearth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBDEB FGHIIJIKIABBB IHLHMINNOGPBBB QPGRGIIISNBBBB TIIUVWBPBB BIIIXYZA2| Before me | A |
| On either side of me | A |
| I see sand | B |
| If I turn the corner of my house | C |
| I see sand | B |
| Long brown | D |
| Lines and levels of flat | E |
| Sand | B |
| - | |
| If I could only see a caravan | F |
| Heave over the edge of it | G |
| The camels wobbling and swaying | H |
| Stepping like ostriches | I |
| With rocking palanquins | I |
| Whose curtains conceal | J |
| Languors and faintnesses | I |
| Muslins tossed aside | K |
| And a disorder of cushions | I |
| The swinging curtains would pique and solace me | A |
| But I only see sand | B |
| Long brown sand | B |
| Sand | B |
| - | |
| If I could only see a herd of Arab horses | I |
| Galloping | H |
| Their manes and tails pulled straight | L |
| By the speed of their going | H |
| Their bodies sleek and round | M |
| Like bellying sails | I |
| They would beat the sand with their fore feet | N |
| And scatter it with their hind feet | N |
| So that it whirled in a cloud of orange | O |
| And the sun through it | G |
| Was clip edged without rays and dun | P |
| But I only see sand | B |
| Long brown hot sand | B |
| Sand | B |
| - | |
| If I could only see a mirage | Q |
| Blue white at the horizon | P |
| With palm trees about it | G |
| Tall windless palm trees grouped about a glitter | R |
| If I could strain toward it | G |
| And think of the water creeping round my ankles | I |
| Tickling under my knees | I |
| Leeching up my sides | I |
| Spreading over my back | S |
| But I only feel the grinding beneath my feet | N |
| And I only see sand | B |
| Long dry sand | B |
| Scorching sand | B |
| Sand | B |
| - | |
| If a sand storm would only come | T |
| And spit against my windows | I |
| Snapping upon them and ringing their vibrations | I |
| Swirling over the roof | U |
| Seeping under the door jamb | V |
| Suffocating me and making me struggle for air | W |
| But I only see sand | B |
| Sand lying dead in the sun | P |
| Lines and lines of sand | B |
| Sand | B |
| - | |
| I will paste newspapers over the windows to shut out the sand | B |
| I will fit them into one another and fasten the corners | I |
| Then I will strike matches | I |
| And read of politics and murders and festivals | I |
| Three years old | X |
| But I shall not see the sand any more | Y |
| And I can read | Z |
| While my matches last | A2 |
Amy Lowell
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