Looking, Walking, Being Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFC GHIJKLMF ECNF OFFHK

The World is not something toA
look at it is something to be inB
Mark RudmanC
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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 oneC
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The eyesG
dig and burrow into the worldH
They touchI
fanfare howl madrigal clamorJ
World and the past of itK
not onlyL
visible present solid and shadowM
that looks at one lookingF
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And language RhythmsE
of echo and interruptionC
That'sN
a way of breathingF
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breathing to sustainO
lookingF
walking and lookingF
through the worldH
in itK

Denise Levertov



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