Night Golf Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFD GHI JKLMN O PQB RSTU VWX| I remember the night I discovered | A |
| lying in bed in the dark | B |
| that a few imagined holes of golf | C |
| worked much better than a thousand sheep | D |
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| that the local links | E |
| not the cloudy pasture with its easy fence | F |
| was the greener path to sleep | D |
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| How soothing to stroll the shadowy fairways | G |
| to skirt the moon blanched bunkers | H |
| and hear the night owl in the woods | I |
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| Who cared about the score | J |
| when the club swung with the ease of air | K |
| and I glided from shot to shot | L |
| over the mown and rolling ground | M |
| alone and drowsy with my weightless bag | N |
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| Eighteen small cups punched into the | O |
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| bristling grass | P |
| eighteen flags limp on their sticks | Q |
| in the silent windless dark | B |
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| but in the bedroom with its luminous clock | R |
| and propped open windows | S |
| I got only as far as the seventh hole | T |
| before I drifted easily away | U |
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| the difficult seventh 'The Tester' they called it | V |
| where just as on the earlier holes | W |
| I tapped in dreamily for birdie | X |
Billy Collins
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