Illustrious Ancestors Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGFFFHIJKFLMN| The Rav | A |
| of Northern White Russia declined | B |
| in his youth to learn the | C |
| language of birds because | D |
| the extraneous did not interest him nevertheless | E |
| when he grew old it was found | F |
| he understood them anyway having | G |
| listened well and as it is said 'prayed | F |
| with the bench and the floor ' He used | F |
| what was at hand as did | F |
| Angel Jones of Mold whose meditations | H |
| were sewn into coats and britches | I |
| Well I would like to make | J |
| thinking some line still taut between me and them | K |
| poems direct as what the birds said | F |
| hard as a floor sound as a bench | L |
| mysterious as the silence when the tailor | M |
| would pause with his needle in the air | N |
Denise Levertov
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