Clouds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC CAD EEFGHIJK ALMNEOPQAR STGRU VKW XAWY ZAR| The clouds as I see them rising | A |
| urgently roseate in the | B |
| mounting of somber power | C |
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| surging in evening haste over | C |
| roofs and hermetic | A |
| grim walls | D |
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| Last night | E |
| As if death had lit a pale light | E |
| in your flesh your flesh | F |
| was cold to my touch or not cold | G |
| but cool cooling as if the last traces | H |
| of warmth were still fading in you | I |
| My thigh burned in cold fear where | J |
| yours touched it | K |
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| But I forced to mind my vision of a sky | A |
| close and enclosed unlike the space in which these clouds move | L |
| a sky of gray mist it appeared | M |
| and how looking intently at it we saw | N |
| its gray was not gray but a milky white | E |
| in which radiant traces of opal greens | O |
| fiery blues gleamed faded gleamed again | P |
| and how only then seeing the color in the gray | Q |
| a field sprang into sight extending | A |
| between where we stood and the horizon | R |
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| a field of freshest deep spiring grass | S |
| starred with dandelions | T |
| green and gold | G |
| gold and green alternating in closewoven | R |
| chords madrigal field | U |
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| Is death s chill that visited our bed | V |
| other than what it seemed is it | K |
| a gray to be watched keenly | W |
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| Wiping my glasses and leaning westward | X |
| clearing my mind of the day s mist and leaning | A |
| into myself to see | W |
| the colors of truth | Y |
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| I watch the clouds as I see them | Z |
| in pomp advancing pursuing | A |
| the fallen sun | R |
Denise Levertov
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