Caedmon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPDQRS TIUVDWDGDXDYB| All others talked as if | A |
| talk were a dance | B |
| Clodhopper I with clumsy feet | C |
| would break the gliding ring | D |
| Early I learned to | E |
| hunch myself | F |
| close by the door | G |
| then when the talk began | H |
| I d wipe my | I |
| mouth and wend | J |
| unnoticed back to the barn | K |
| to be with the warm beasts | L |
| dumb among body sounds | M |
| of the simple ones | N |
| I d see by a twist | O |
| of lit rush the motes | P |
| of gold moving | D |
| from shadow to shadow | Q |
| slow in the wake | R |
| of deep untroubled sighs | S |
| The cows | T |
| munched or stirred or were still I | I |
| was at home and lonely | U |
| both in good measure Until | V |
| the sudden angel affrighted me light effacing | D |
| my feeble beam | W |
| a forest of torches feathers of flame sparks upflying | D |
| but the cows as before | G |
| were calm and nothing was burning | D |
| nothing but I as that hand of fire | X |
| touched my lips and scorched my tongue | D |
| and pulled my voice | Y |
| into the ring of the dance | B |
Denise Levertov
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