The Rock In The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AAABBC CDDEEFFGGHH II

Think of our blindness where the water burnedA
Are we so certain that those wings returnedA
And turning we had half discernedA
Before our dazzled eyes had surely seenB
The bird aloft there did not meanB
Our hearts so seized upon the signC
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Think how we sailed up wind the brineC
Tasting of daphne the enormous waveD
Thundering in the water caveD
Thunder in stone And how we beached the skiffE
And climbed the coral of that iron cliffE
And found what only in our hearts we d heardF
The silver screaming of that one white birdF
The fabulous wings the crimson beakG
That opened red as blood to shriekG
And clamor in that world of stoneH
No voice to answer but its ownH
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What certainty hidden in our hearts beforeI
Found in the bird its metaphorI

Archibald Macleish



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