Picture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC AAD EAF GHI AAJ AJC AKL| Meadow of matchsticks | A |
| soon to be rekindled | B |
| by Spring the incendiary | C |
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| The exact flame of your blossoms | A |
| will ignite the passions | A |
| happily sapped by time | D |
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| Dripdrop their excess went | E |
| and now miners' hats | A |
| light up like love before | F |
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| your vein the frame of which | G |
| is there to depict the drift | H |
| the waste when I painted | I |
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| all the review copies | A |
| they sent me But those books | A |
| open to polar pages where you | J |
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| and I weigh the ends of this | A |
| teeter totem down you | J |
| at the head and nadir me | C |
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| where postmortem is | A |
| the aura of self portrait | K |
| its other half regained at last | L |
Bill Knott
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