The Congressional Library Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIBJKLMNOPQRS TUVHWXYZA2B2B2C2D2 E2F2G2H2NJI2XI2H2XII J2K2NIIQINIL2TAXYAJ2| The earth is a colored thing | A |
| See the red clays and the umbers and salt greasy of the mountains | B |
| See the clustered and wandering greens of plains and hillsides | C |
| The leaf greens bush greens water plant and snow greens | D |
| Of gardens and forests | E |
| See the reds of flowers hibiscus poppy geranium | F |
| The rose red of little flowers may flowers primroses | G |
| The harlequin shades of sweet peas orchids pansies | H |
| The madders saffrons chromes of still waters | I |
| The silver and star blues the wine blues of seas and oceans | B |
| Observe the stars at nighttime name the color of them | J |
| Count and recount the hues of clouds at sunset and at dawn | K |
| And the colors of the races of men | L |
| What are they | M |
| And what are we | N |
| We the people without a race | O |
| Without a language | P |
| Of all races and of none | Q |
| Of all tongues and one imposed | R |
| Of all traditions and all pasts | S |
| With no tradition and no past | T |
| A patchwork and an altar piece | U |
| Vague as sea mist | V |
| Myriad as forest trees | H |
| Living into a present | W |
| Building a future | X |
| Our color is the vari colored world | Y |
| No colors clash | Z |
| All clash and change | A2 |
| And in changing new colors come and go and dominate and remain | B2 |
| And no one shall say which remain | B2 |
| Since those that have vanished return | C2 |
| And those no man has seen take the light and are | D2 |
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| Where else in all America are we so symbolized | E2 |
| As in this hall | F2 |
| White columns polished like glass | G2 |
| A dome and a dome | H2 |
| A balcony and a balcony | N |
| Stairs and the balustrades to them | J |
| Yellow marble and red slabs of it | I2 |
| All mounting spearing flying into color | X |
| Color round the dome and up to it | I2 |
| Color curving kite flying to the second dome | H2 |
| Light dropping pitching down upon the color | X |
| Arrow falling upon the glass bright pillars | I |
| Mingled colors spinning into a shape of white pillars | I |
| Fusing cooling into balanced shafts of shrill and interthronging light | J2 |
| This is America | K2 |
| This vast confused beauty | N |
| This staring restless speed of loveliness | I |
| Mighty overwhelming crude of all forms | I |
| Making grandeur out of profusion | Q |
| Afraid of no incongruities | I |
| Sublime in its audacity | N |
| Bizarre breaker of moulds | I |
| Laughing with strength | L2 |
| Charging down on the past | T |
| Glorious and conquering | A |
| Destroyer builder | X |
| Invincible pith and marrow of the world | Y |
| An old world remaking | A |
| Whirling into the no world of all colored light | J2 |
Amy Lowell
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