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