In California: Morning, Evening, Late January Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC ABDE FEAE AAEA FGHI EJ KLE EAJAA E HAMLEEJE LLA LEL JLAJ LLN| Pale then enkindled | A |
| light | A |
| advancing | B |
| emblazoning | B |
| summits of palm and pine | C |
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| the dew | A |
| lingering | B |
| scripture of | D |
| scintillas | E |
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| Soon the roar | F |
| of mowers | E |
| cropping the already short | A |
| grass of lawns | E |
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| men with long nozzled | A |
| cylinders of pesticide | A |
| poking at weeds | E |
| at moss in cracks of cement | A |
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| and louder roar | F |
| of helicopters off to spray | G |
| vineyards where braceros try | H |
| to hold their breath | I |
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| and in the distance bulldozers excavators | E |
| babel of destructive construction | J |
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| Banded by deep | K |
| oakshadow airy | L |
| shadow of eucalyptus | E |
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| miner's lettuce | E |
| tender untasted | A |
| and other grass unmown | J |
| luxuriant | A |
| no green more brilliant | A |
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| Fragile paradise | E |
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| At day's end the whole sky | H |
| vast unstinting flooded with transparent | A |
| mauve | M |
| tint of wisteria | L |
| cloudless | E |
| over the malls the industrial parks | E |
| the homes with the lights going on | J |
| the homeless arranging their bundles | E |
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| Who can utter | L |
| the poignance of all that is constantly | L |
| threatened invaded expended | A |
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| and constantly | L |
| nevertheless | E |
| persists in beauty | L |
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| tranquil as this young moon | J |
| just risen and slowly | L |
| drinking light | A |
| from the vanished sun | J |
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| Who can utter | L |
| the praise of such generosity | L |
| or the shame | N |
Denise Levertov
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