September 1961 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CDA EFG HIC JKL KKM NOP MCO QRS IET MUV WKX Y KZA2 KB2C2 D2C| This is the year the old ones | A |
| the old great ones | A |
| leave us alone on the road | B |
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| The road leads to the sea | C |
| We have the words in our pockets | D |
| obscure directions The old ones | A |
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| have taken away the light of their presence | E |
| we see it moving away over a hill | F |
| off to one side | G |
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| They are not dying | H |
| they are withdrawn | I |
| into a painful privacy | C |
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| learning to live without words | J |
| E P quot It looks like dying quot Williams quot I can't | K |
| describe to you what has been | L |
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| happening to me quot | K |
| H D quot unable to speak quot | K |
| The darkness | M |
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| twists itself in the wind the stars | N |
| are small the horizon | O |
| ringed with confused urban light haze | P |
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| They have told us | M |
| the road leads to the sea | C |
| and given | O |
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| the language into our hands | Q |
| We hear | R |
| our footsteps each time a truck | S |
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| has dazzled past us and gone | I |
| leaving us new silence | E |
| Ine can't reach | T |
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| the sea on this endless | M |
| road to the sea unless | U |
| one turns aside at the end it seems | V |
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| follows | W |
| the owl that silently glides above it | K |
| aslant back and forth | X |
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| and away into deep woods | Y |
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| But for usthe road | K |
| unfurls itself we count the | Z |
| words in our pockets we wonder | A2 |
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| how it will be without them we don't | K |
| stop walking we know | B2 |
| there is far to go sometimes | C2 |
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| we think the night wind carries | D2 |
| a smell of the sea | C |
Denise Levertov
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