A Letter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABC DEFDEG HIDHID AJKAJK LMNLMO| I have been wondering | A |
| What you are thinking about and by now suppose | B |
| It is certainly not me | C |
| But the crocus is up and the lark and the blundering | A |
| Blood knows what it knows | B |
| It talks to itself all night like a sliding moonlit sea | C |
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| Of course it is talking of you | D |
| At dawn where the ocean has netted its catch of lights | E |
| The sun plants one lithe foot | F |
| On that spill of mirrors but the blood goes worming through | D |
| Its warm Arabian nights | E |
| Naming your pounding name again in the dark heart root | G |
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| Who shall of course be nameless | H |
| Anyway I should want you to know I have done my best | I |
| As I'm sure you have too | D |
| Others are bound to us the gentle and blameless | H |
| Whose names are not confessed | I |
| In the ceaseless palaver My dearest the clear unquaried blue | D |
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| Of those depths is all but blinding | A |
| You may remember that once you brought my boys | J |
| Two little woolly birds | K |
| Yesterday the older one asked for you upon finding | A |
| Your thrush among his toys | J |
| And the tides welled about me and I could find no words | K |
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| There is not much else to tell | L |
| One tries one's best to continue as before | M |
| Doing some little good | N |
| But I would have you know that all is not well | L |
| With a man dead set to ignore | M |
| The endless repetitions of his own murmurous blood | O |
Anthony Evan Hecht
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