Making Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHIJG KLMN OIBPQ RSDTUIVWX| s | A |
| imagination of peace to oust the intense familiar | B |
| imagination of disaster Peace not only | C |
| the absence of war | D |
| - | |
| But peace like a poem | E |
| is not there ahead of itself | F |
| can't be imagined before it is made | G |
| can't be known except | H |
| in the words of its making | I |
| grammar of justice | J |
| syntax of mutual aid | G |
| - | |
| A feeling towards it | K |
| dimly sensing a rhythm is all we have | L |
| until we begin to utter its metaphors | M |
| learning them as we speak | N |
| - | |
| A line of peace might appear | O |
| if we restructured the sentence our lives are making | I |
| revoked its reaffirmation of profit and power | B |
| questioned our needs allowed | P |
| long pauses | Q |
| - | |
| A cadence of peace might balance its weight | R |
| on that different fulcrum peace a presence | S |
| an energy field more intense than war | D |
| might pulse then | T |
| stanza by stanza into the world | U |
| each act of living | I |
| one of its words each word | V |
| a vibration of light facets | W |
| of the forming crystal | X |
Denise Levertov
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