Reading An Anthology Of Chinese Poems Of The Sung Dynasty, I Pause To Admire The Length And Clarity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HI JBCKL MALAN OAPP AQB BRLDLB OPJ| It seems these poets have nothing | A |
| up their ample sleeves | B |
| they turn over so many cards so early | C |
| telling us before the first line | D |
| whether it is wet or dry | E |
| night or day the season the man is standing in | F |
| even how much he has had to drink | G |
| - | |
| Maybe it is autumn and he is looking at a sparrow | H |
| Maybe it is snowing on a town with a beautiful name | I |
| - | |
| Viewing Peonies at the Temple of Good Fortune | J |
| on a Cloudy Afternoon is one of Sun Tung Po's | B |
| Dipping Water from the River and Simmering Tea | C |
| is another one or just | K |
| On a Boat Awake at Night | L |
| - | |
| And Lu Yu takes the simple rice cake with | M |
| In a Boat on a Summer Evening | A |
| I Heard the Cry of a Waterbird | L |
| It Was Very Sad and Seemed To Be Saying | A |
| My Woman Is Cruel Moved I Wrote This Poem | N |
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| There is no iron turnstile to push against here | O |
| as with headings like Vortex on a String | A |
| The Horn of Neurosis or whatever | P |
| No confusingly inscribed welcome mat to puzzle over | P |
| - | |
| Instead I Walk Out on a Summer Morning | A |
| to the Sound of Birds and a Waterfall | Q |
| is a beaded curtain brushing over my shoulders | B |
| - | |
| And Ten Days of Spring Rain Have Kept Me Indoors | B |
| is a servant who shows me into the room | R |
| where a poet with a thin beard | L |
| is sitting on a mat with a jug of wine | D |
| whispering something about clouds and cold wind | L |
| about sickness and the loss of friends | B |
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| How easy he has made it for me to enter here | O |
| to sit down in a corner | P |
| cross my legs like his and listen | J |
Billy Collins
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