Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJK ALMLNLL OP QRKSTLL| I know if I find you I will have to leave the earth | A |
| and go on out | B |
| over the sea marshes and the brant in bays | C |
| and over the hills of tall hickory | D |
| and over the crater lakes and canyons | E |
| and on up through the spheres of diminishing air | F |
| past the blackset noctilucent clouds | G |
| where one wants to stop and look | H |
| way past all the light diffusions and bombardments | I |
| up farther than the loss of sight | J |
| into the unseasonal undifferentiated empty stark | K |
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| And I know if I find you I will have to stay with the earth | A |
| inspecting with thin tools and ground eyes | L |
| trusting the microvilli sporangia and simplest | M |
| coelenterates | L |
| and praying for a nerve cell | N |
| with all the soul of my chemical reactions | L |
| and going right on down where the eye sees only traces | L |
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| You are everywhere partial and entire | O |
| You are on the inside of everything and on the outside | P |
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| I walk down the path down the hill where the sweetgum | Q |
| has begun to ooze spring sap at the cut | R |
| and I see how the bark cracks and winds like no other bark | K |
| chasmal to my ant soul running up and down | S |
| and if I find you I must go out deep into your | T |
| far resolutions | L |
| and if I find you I must stay here with the separate leaves | L |
Archie Randolph Ammons
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