Gravelly Run Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAE FGGHH IJKLM NOPQ RC STUVVWVX| I don't know somehow it seems sufficient | A |
| to see and hear whatever coming and going is | B |
| losing the self to the victory | C |
| of stones and trees | D |
| of bending sandpit lakes crescent | A |
| round groves of dwarf pine | E |
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| for it is not so much to know the self | F |
| as to know it as it is known | G |
| by galaxy and cedar cone | G |
| as if birth had never found it | H |
| and death could never end it | H |
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| the swamp's slow water comes | I |
| down Gravelly Run fanning the long | J |
| stone held algal | K |
| hair and narrowing roils between | L |
| the shoulders of the highway bridge | M |
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| holly grows on the banks in the woods there | N |
| and the cedars' gothic clustered | O |
| spires could make | P |
| green religion in winter bones | Q |
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| so I look and reflect but the air's glass | R |
| jail seals each thing in its entity | C |
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| no use to make any philosophies here | S |
| I see no | T |
| god in the holly hear no song from | U |
| the snowbroken weeds Hegel is not the winter | V |
| yellow in the pines the sunlight has never | V |
| heard of trees surrendered self among | W |
| unwelcoming forms stranger | V |
| hoist your burdens get on down the road | X |
Archie Randolph Ammons
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