Identity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEFGHIJ KLMN OP QRSAT USV EWXYZ A2EB2HC2D2FYX E2F2E2E2 XG2H2E2I2J2K2L2 M2N2KI2 GWPN2S AGO2N2G P2GQ2SR2S| An individual spider web | A |
| identifies a species | B |
| - | |
| an order of instinct prevails | C |
| through all accidents of circumstance | D |
| though possibility is | E |
| high along the peripheries of | F |
| spider | G |
| webs | H |
| you can go all | I |
| around the fringing attachments | J |
| - | |
| and find | K |
| disorder ripe | L |
| entropy rich high levels of random | M |
| numerous occasions of accident | N |
| - | |
| the possible settings | O |
| of a web are infinite | P |
| - | |
| how does | Q |
| the spider keep | R |
| identity | S |
| while creating the web | A |
| in a particular place | T |
| - | |
| how and to what extent | U |
| and by what modes of chemistry | S |
| and control | V |
| - | |
| it is | E |
| wonderful | W |
| how things work I will tell you | X |
| about it | Y |
| because | Z |
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| it is interesting | A2 |
| and because whatever is | E |
| moves in weeds | B2 |
| and stars and spider webs | H |
| and known | C2 |
| is loved | D2 |
| in that love | F |
| each of us knowing it | Y |
| I love you | X |
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| for it moves within and beyond us | E2 |
| sizzles in | F2 |
| to winter grasses darts and hangs with bumblebees | E2 |
| by summer windowsills | E2 |
| - | |
| I will show you | X |
| the underlying that takes no image to itself | G2 |
| cannot be shown or said | H2 |
| but weaves in and out of moons and bladderweeds | E2 |
| is all and | I2 |
| beyond destruction | J2 |
| because created fully in no | K2 |
| particular form | L2 |
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| if the web were perfectly pre set | M2 |
| the spider could | N2 |
| never find | K |
| a perfect place to set it in and | I2 |
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| if the web were | G |
| perfectly adaptable | W |
| if freedom and possibility were without limit | P |
| the web would | N2 |
| lose its special identity | S |
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| the row strung garden web | A |
| keeps order at the center | G |
| where space is freest intersecting that the freest | O2 |
| 'medium' should | N2 |
| accept the firmest order | G |
| - | |
| and that | P2 |
| order | G |
| diminishes toward the | Q2 |
| periphery | S |
| allowing at the points of contact | R2 |
| entropy equal to entropy | S |
Archie Randolph Ammons
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