The Rock In The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBC CDDEEFFGGHH IIThink of our blindness where the water burned | A |
Are we so certain that those wings returned | A |
And turning we had half discerned | A |
Before our dazzled eyes had surely seen | B |
The bird aloft there did not mean | B |
Our hearts so seized upon the sign | C |
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Think how we sailed up wind the brine | C |
Tasting of daphne the enormous wave | D |
Thundering in the water cave | D |
Thunder in stone And how we beached the skiff | E |
And climbed the coral of that iron cliff | E |
And found what only in our hearts we d heard | F |
The silver screaming of that one white bird | F |
The fabulous wings the crimson beak | G |
That opened red as blood to shriek | G |
And clamor in that world of stone | H |
No voice to answer but its own | H |
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What certainty hidden in our hearts before | I |
Found in the bird its metaphor | I |
Archibald Macleish
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