Corsons Inlet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEE F GEHE E IIIEIE AIAJEIHKHIEIAE LIEIIIMI IENII EOP EAQI RPSETU PVWHETIEXEI YMIFEEX EIIEEHZEFA2IIIB2EIHA 2 OXC2A2EIPA2ID2LI EE2F2IA2ME G2EE IYI H2EJA2AEHEI2I went for a walk over the dunes again this morning | A |
to the sea | B |
then turned right along | C |
the surf | D |
rounded a naked headland | E |
and returned | E |
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along the inlet shore | F |
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it was muggy sunny the wind from the sea steady and high | G |
crisp in the running sand | E |
some breakthroughs of sun | H |
but after a bit | E |
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continuous overcast | E |
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the walk liberating I was released from forms | I |
from the perpendiculars | I |
straight lines blocks boxes binds | I |
of thought | E |
into the hues shadings rises flowing bends and blends | I |
of sight | E |
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I allow myself eddies of meaning | A |
yield to a direction of significance | I |
running | A |
like a stream through the geography of my work | J |
you can find | E |
in my sayings | I |
swerves of action | H |
like the inlet's cutting edge | K |
there are dunes of motion | H |
organizations of grass white sandy paths of remembrance | I |
in the overall wandering of mirroring mind | E |
but Overall is beyond me is the sum of these events | I |
I cannot draw the ledger I cannot keep the accounting | A |
beyond the account | E |
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in nature there are few sharp lines there are areas of | L |
primrose | I |
more or less dispersed | E |
disorderly orders of bayberry between the rows | I |
of dunes | I |
irregular swamps of reeds | I |
though not reeds alone but grass bayberry yarrow all | M |
predominantly reeds | I |
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I have reached no conclusions have erected no boundaries | I |
shutting out and shutting in separating inside | E |
from outside I have | N |
drawn no lines | I |
as | I |
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manifold events of sand | E |
change the dune's shape that will not be the same shape | O |
tomorrow | P |
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so I am willing to go along to accept | E |
the becoming | A |
thought to stake off no beginnings or ends establish | Q |
no walls | I |
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by transitions the land falls from grassy dunes to creek | R |
to undercreek but there are no lines though | P |
change in that transition is clear | S |
as any sharpness but quot sharpness quot spread out | E |
allowed to occur over a wider range | T |
than mental lines can keep | U |
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the moon was full last night today low tide was low | P |
black shoals of mussels exposed to the risk | V |
of air | W |
and earlier of sun | H |
waved in and out with the waterline waterline inexact | E |
caught always in the event of change | T |
a young mottled gull stood free on the shoals | I |
and ate | E |
to vomiting another gull squawking possession cracked a crab | X |
picked out the entrails swallowed the soft shelled legs a ruddy | E |
turnstone running in to snatch leftover bits | I |
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risk is full every living thing in | Y |
siege the demand is life to keep life the small | M |
white blacklegged egret how beautiful quietly stalks and spears | I |
the shallows darts to shore | F |
to stab what I couldn't | E |
see against the black mudflats a frightened | E |
fiddler crab | X |
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the news to my left over the dunes and | E |
reeds and bayberry clumps was | I |
fall thousands of tree swallows | I |
gathering for flight | E |
an order held | E |
in constant change a congregation | H |
rich with entropy nevertheless separable noticeable | Z |
as one event | E |
not chaos preparations for | F |
flight from winter | A2 |
cheet cheet cheet cheet wings rifling the green clumps | I |
beaks | I |
at the bayberries | I |
a perception full of wind flight curve | B2 |
sound | E |
the possibility of rule as the sum of rulelessness | I |
the quot field quot of action | H |
with moving incalculable center | A2 |
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in the smaller view order tight with shape | O |
blue tiny flowers on a leafless weed carapace of crab | X |
snail shell | C2 |
pulsations of order | A2 |
in the bellies of minnows orders swallowed | E |
broken down transferred through membranes | I |
to strengthen larger orders but in the large view no | P |
lines or changeless shapes the working in and out together | A2 |
and against of millions of events this | I |
so that I make | D2 |
no form of | L |
formlessness | I |
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orders as summaries as outcomes of actions override | E |
or in some way result not predictably seeing me gain | E2 |
the top of a dune | F2 |
the swallows | I |
could take flight some other fields of bayberry | A2 |
could enter fall | M |
berryless and there is serenity | E |
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no arranged terror no forcing of image plan | G2 |
or thought | E |
no propaganda no humbling of reality to precept | E |
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terror pervades but is not arranged all possibilities | I |
of escape open no route shut except in | Y |
the sudden loss of all routes | I |
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I see narrow orders limited tightness but will | H2 |
not run to that easy victory | E |
still around the looser wider forces work | J |
I will try | A2 |
to fasten into order enlarging grasps of disorder widening | A |
scope but enjoying the freedom that | E |
Scope eludes my grasp that there is no finality of vision | H |
that I have perceived nothing completely | E |
that tomorrow a new walk is a new walk | I2 |
Archie Randolph Ammons
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