The Problem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC CDEFGHIJCCCHKLMNOJMP CQMH| The Problem | A |
| - | |
| The name of the bow is life but its work is death | B |
| The Fragments | C |
| - | |
| How in Heraclitus | C |
| ideas of things quality and event | D |
| coalesce sun warmth dawn | E |
| the perceiver perceived too | F |
| not yet parsed not yet | G |
| and then the great Forgetting | H |
| breath and breather love and beloved | I |
| world and God in the world | J |
| But then it comes upon us that brightness | C |
| that bright tension in animals for instance | C |
| that focus that compass | C |
| of the mammalian mind finding | H |
| its own true North | K |
| saintly in its dark eyed | L |
| arrow eared devotion | M |
| A kind of calling a via negativa | N |
| a surrender still and silent to the heart s desire | O |
| So in the cathedral of the world | J |
| we hold communion | M |
| the bread of language | P |
| placed delicately upon our tongues | C |
| as we breathe the bitter air | Q |
| drinking the wine of reason | M |
| and pressing to our breasts the old dream of Being | H |
B H Fairchild
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