Neither Snow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FAGHIJKL JMNO PGLQ RSTULVWA| When all of a sudden the city air filled with snow | A |
| the distinguishable flakes | B |
| blowing sideways | C |
| looked like krill | D |
| fleeing the maw of an advancing whale | E |
| - | |
| At least they looked that way to me | F |
| from the taxi window | A |
| and since I happened to be sitting | G |
| that fading Sunday afternoon | H |
| in the very center of the universe | I |
| who was in a better position | J |
| to say what looked like what | K |
| which thing resembled some other | L |
| - | |
| Yes it was a run of white plankton | J |
| borne down the Avenue of the Americas | M |
| in the stream of the wind | N |
| phosphorescent against the weighty buildings | O |
| - | |
| Which made the taxi itself | P |
| yellow and slow moving | G |
| a kind of undersea creature | L |
| I thought as I wiped the fog from the glass | Q |
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| and me one of its protruding eyes | R |
| an eye on a stem | S |
| swiveling this way and that | T |
| monitoring one side of its world | U |
| observing tons of water | L |
| tons of people | V |
| colored signs and lights | W |
| and now a wildly blowing race of snow | A |
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