Ancestral Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHDBIJKL MNOCP QGAR| The star dissolved in evening the one star | A |
| The silently | B |
| and night O soon now soon | C |
| And still the light now | D |
| and still now the large | E |
| Relinquishing | F |
| and through the pools of blue | G |
| Still still the swallows | H |
| and a wind now | D |
| and the tree | B |
| Gathering darkness | I |
| I was small I lay | J |
| Beside my mother on the grass and sleep | K |
| Came | L |
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| - | |
| slow hooves and dripping with the dark | M |
| The velvet muzzles the white feet that move | N |
| In a dream water | O |
| and O soon now soon | C |
| Sleep and the night | P |
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| - | |
| And I was not afraid | Q |
| Her hand lay over mine Her fingers knew | G |
| Darkness and sleep the silent lands the far | A |
| Far off of morning where I should awake | R |
Archibald Macleish
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