Still Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFGHIJ BKLM NAOA PQRASDTEUC VEKDWXYBAV ZA2 B2EC2K| I said I will find what is lowly | A |
| and put the roots of my identity | A |
| down there | B |
| each day I'll wake up | C |
| and find the lowly nearby | D |
| a handy focus and reminder | E |
| a ready measure of my significance | F |
| the voice by which I would be heard | G |
| the wills the kinds of selfishness | H |
| I could | I |
| freely adopt as my own | J |
| - | |
| but though I have looked everywhere | B |
| I can find nothing | K |
| to give myself to | L |
| everything is | M |
| - | |
| magnificent with existence is in | N |
| surfeit of glory | A |
| nothing is diminished | O |
| nothing has been diminished for me | A |
| - | |
| I said what is more lowly than the grass | P |
| ah underneath | Q |
| a ground crust of dry burnt moss | R |
| I looked at it closely | A |
| and said this can be my habitat but | S |
| nestling in I | D |
| found | T |
| below the brown exterior | E |
| green mechanisms beyond the intellect | U |
| awaiting resurrection in rain so I got up | C |
| - | |
| and ran saying there is nothing lowly in the universe | V |
| I found a beggar | E |
| he had stumps for legs nobody was paying | K |
| him any attention everybody went on by | D |
| I nestled in and found his life | W |
| there love shook his body like a devastation | X |
| I said | Y |
| though I have looked everywhere | B |
| I can find nothing lowly | A |
| in the universe | V |
| - | |
| I whirled though transfigurations up and down | Z |
| transfigurations of size and shape and place | A2 |
| - | |
| at one sudden point came still | B2 |
| stood in wonder | E |
| moss beggar weed tick pine self magnificent | C2 |
| with being | K |
Archie Randolph Ammons
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