Losing Track Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB CDE FFG HAI CJK ABLLong after you have swung back | A |
away from me | B |
I think you are still with me | B |
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you come in close to the shore | C |
on the tide | D |
and nudge me awake the way | E |
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a boat adrift nudges the pier | F |
am I a pier | F |
half in half out of the water | G |
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and in the pleasure of that communion | H |
I lose track | A |
the moon I watch goes down the | I |
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tide swings you away before | C |
I know I'm | J |
alone again long since | K |
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mud sucking at gray and black | A |
timbers of me | B |
a light growth of green dreams drying | L |
Denise Levertov
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