I Ask You Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEF GHIJKL CMNOP QRBSTUVW WBXYZA2B2C2D2| What scene would I want to be enveloped in | A |
| more than this one | B |
| an ordinary night at the kitchen table | C |
| floral wallpaper pressing in | A |
| white cabinets full of glass | D |
| the telephone silent | E |
| a pen tilted back in my hand | F |
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| It gives me time to think | G |
| about all that is going on outside | H |
| leaves gathering in corners | I |
| lichen greening the high grey rocks | J |
| while over the dunes the world sails on | K |
| huge ocean going history bubbling in its wake | L |
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| But beyond this table | C |
| there is nothing that I need | M |
| not even a job that would allow me to row to work | N |
| or a coffee colored Aston Martin DB | O |
| with cracked green leather seats | P |
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| No it's all here | Q |
| the clear ovals of a glass of water | R |
| a small crate of oranges a book on Stalin | B |
| not to mention the odd snarling fish | S |
| in a frame on the wall | T |
| and the way these three candles | U |
| each a different height | V |
| are singing in perfect harmony | W |
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| So forgive me | W |
| if I lower my head now and listen | B |
| to the short bass candle as he takes a solo | X |
| while my heart | Y |
| thrums under my shirt | Z |
| frog at the edge of a pond | A2 |
| and my thoughts fly off to a province | B2 |
| made of one enormous sky | C2 |
| and about a million empty branches | D2 |
Billy Collins
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