Giant Fungus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCCC CCDE FCCG HCIC CHCJ KCHLacre growth found in Michigan | A |
The Los Angeles Times | B |
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The sky is full of ruddy ducks | C |
and widgeon's mockingbirds | C |
bees bats swallowtails | C |
dragonflies and great horned owls | C |
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The land below teems with elands | C |
and kit foxes badgers aardvarks | C |
juniper banana slugs larch | D |
cactus heather humankind | E |
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Under them a dome of dirt | F |
Under that the World's | C |
Largest Living Thing spreads | C |
like a hemorrhage poised | G |
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to paralyze the earth like a tumor | H |
ready to cause convulsions | C |
or a brain dreaming this world | I |
of crickets and dung beetles | C |
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sculpins Beethoven coots | C |
Caligula St Augustine grass Mister | H |
Lincoln roses passion fruit wildebeests | C |
orioles like sunspots shooting high | J |
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then dropping back to the green | K |
arms of trees their roots | C |
sunk deep in the power | H |
of things sleeping and unknown | L |
Charles Harper Webb
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