Contraband Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDDBFDGHIJAKLMDE NOPF| The tree of knowledge was the tree of reason | A |
| That's why the taste of it | B |
| drove us from Eden That fruit | C |
| was meant to be dried and milled to a fine powder | D |
| for use a pinch at a time a condiment | E |
| God had probably planned to tell us later | D |
| about this new pleasure | D |
| We stuffed our mouths full of it | B |
| gorged on i but i and i if i and i how i and again | F |
| i but i knowing no better | D |
| It's toxic in large quantities fumes | G |
| swirled in our heads and around us | H |
| to form a dense cloud that hardened to steel | I |
| a wall between us and God Who was Paradise | J |
| Not that God is unreasonable but reason | A |
| in such excess was tyranny | K |
| and locked us into its own limits a polished cell | L |
| reflecting our own faces God lives | M |
| on the other side of that mirror | D |
| but through the slit where the barrier doesn't | E |
| quite touch ground manages still | N |
| to squeeze in as filtered light | O |
| splinters of fire a strain of music heard | P |
| then lost then heard again | F |
Denise Levertov
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