The Maple Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHAIEDJKEHLMFN OPQRSTUVAWFXY| is a system of posture for wood | A |
| A way of not falling down | B |
| for twigs that happens | C |
| to benefit birds I don't know | D |
| I'm staring at a tree | E |
| at yellow leaves | F |
| threshed by wind and want you | G |
| reading this to be staring | H |
| at the same tree I could | A |
| cut it down and laminate it | I |
| or ask you to live with me | E |
| on the stairs with the window | D |
| keeping an eye on the maple | J |
| but I think your real life | K |
| would miss you The story | E |
| here is that all morning | H |
| I've thought of the statement | L |
| that art is about loneliness | M |
| while watching golden leaves | F |
| become unhinged | N |
| By ones or in bunches | O |
| they tumble and hang | P |
| for a moment like a dress | Q |
| in the dryer | R |
| At the laundromat | S |
| you've seen the arms | T |
| thrown out to catch the shirt | U |
| flying the other way | V |
| Just as you've stood | A |
| at the bottom of a gray sky | W |
| in a pile of leaves | F |
| trying to lick them | X |
| back into place | Y |
Bob Hicok
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