The Carver Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHIHJKJK LMLMENEN| See as the carver carves a rose | A |
| A wing a toad a serpent's eye | B |
| In cruel granite to disclose | A |
| The soft things that in hardness lie | B |
| So this one taking up his heart | C |
| Which time and change had made a stone | D |
| Carved out of it with dolorous art | C |
| Laboring yearlong and alone | D |
| The thing there hidden rose toad wing | E |
| A frog's hand on a lily pad | F |
| Bees in a cobweb no such thing | E |
| A girl's head was the thing he had | F |
| Small shapely richly crowned with hair | G |
| Drowsy with eyes half closed as they | H |
| Looked through you and beyond you clear | I |
| To something farther than Cathay | H |
| Saw you yet counted you not worth | J |
| The seeing thinking all the while | K |
| How flower like beauty comes to birth | J |
| And thinking this began to smile | K |
| Medusa For she could not see | L |
| The world she turned to stone and ash | M |
| Only herself she saw a tree | L |
| That flowered beneath a lightning flash | M |
| Thus dreamed her face a lovely thing | E |
| To worship weep for or to break | N |
| Better to carve a claw a wing | E |
| Or if the heart provide a snake | N |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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