Looking, Walking, Being Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFG HIJKLMNF EGOF PFFIL

i The World is not something toA
look at it is something to be inB
Mark Rudman iC
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I look and lookD
Looking's a way of being one becomesE
sometimes a pair of eyes walkingF
Walking wherever looking takes oneG
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The eyesH
dig and burrow into the worldI
They touchJ
fanfare howl madrigal clamorK
World and the past of itL
not onlyM
visible present solid and shadowN
that looks at one lookingF
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And language RhythmsE
of echo and interruptionG
That'sO
a way of breathingF
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breathing to sustainP
lookingF
walking and lookingF
through the worldI
in itL

Denise Levertov



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