Looking, Walking, Being Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFG HIJKLMNF EGOF PFFILi The World is not something to | A |
look at it is something to be in | B |
Mark Rudman i | C |
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I look and look | D |
Looking's a way of being one becomes | E |
sometimes a pair of eyes walking | F |
Walking wherever looking takes one | G |
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The eyes | H |
dig and burrow into the world | I |
They touch | J |
fanfare howl madrigal clamor | K |
World and the past of it | L |
not only | M |
visible present solid and shadow | N |
that looks at one looking | F |
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And language Rhythms | E |
of echo and interruption | G |
That's | O |
a way of breathing | F |
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breathing to sustain | P |
looking | F |
walking and looking | F |
through the world | I |
in it | L |
Denise Levertov
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