The City Limits Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DCD ECF DGC HIJ KLM| When you consider the radiance that it does not withhold | A |
| itself but pours its abundance without selection into every | B |
| nook and cranny not overhung or hidden when you consider | C |
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| that birds' bones make no awful noise against the light but | D |
| lie low in the light as in a high testimony when you consider | C |
| the radiance that it will look into the guiltiest | D |
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| swervings of the weaving heart and bear itself upon them | E |
| not flinching into disguise or darkening when you consider | C |
| the abundance of such resource as illuminates the glow blue | F |
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| bodies and gold skeined wings of flies swarming the dumped | D |
| guts of a natural slaughter or the coil of shit and in no | G |
| way winces from its storms of generosity when you consider | C |
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| that air or vacuum snow or shale squid or wolf rose or lichen | H |
| each is accepted into as much light as it will take then | I |
| the heart moves roomier the man stands and looks about the | J |
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| leaf does not increase itself above the grass and the dark | K |
| work of the deepest cells is of a tune with May bushes | L |
| and fear lit by the breadth of such calmly turns to praise | M |
Archie Randolph Ammons
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