Learning To Swim Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHA IJK GLM| At forty eight to be given water | A |
| which is most of the world given life | B |
| in water which is most of me given ease | C |
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| which is most of what I lack here where walls | D |
| don t part to my hands is to be born | E |
| as of three weeks ago Taking nothing | F |
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| from you mother or you sky or you | G |
| mountain that you wouldn t take | H |
| if offered by the sea any sea or river | A |
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| any river or the pool beside which | I |
| a woman sits who would save me | J |
| if I needed saving in a red suit as if flame | K |
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| is the color of emergency as I do | G |
| need saving from solid things | L |
| most of all their dissolve | M |
Bob Hicok
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