The Bather Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCD EE FF GEH GIJG| I saw him go down to the water to bathe | A |
| He stood naked upon the bank | B |
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| His breast was like a white cloud in the heaven | C |
| that catches the sun | C |
| It swelled with the sharp joy of the air | D |
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| His legs rose with the spring and curve of young birches | E |
| The hollow of his back caught the blue shadows | E |
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| With his head thrown up to the lips of the wind | F |
| And the curls of his forehead astir with the wind | F |
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| I would that I were a man they are so beautiful | G |
| Their bodies are like the bows of the Indians | E |
| They have the spring and the grace of bows of hickory | H |
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| I know that women are beautiful and that I am beautiful | G |
| But the beauty of a man is so lithe and alive and triumphant | I |
| Swift as the night of a swallow and sure as the | J |
| pounce of the eagle | G |
Bliss Carman (william)
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