Sojourns In The Parallel World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHECAIJKHLMNHO PEQRSTU| We live our lives of human passions | A |
| cruelties dreams concepts | B |
| crimes and the exercise of virtue | C |
| in and beside a world devoid | D |
| of our preoccupations free | E |
| from apprehension though affected | F |
| certainly by our actions A world | G |
| parallel to our own though overlapping | H |
| We call it Nature only reluctantly | E |
| admitting ourselves to be Nature too | C |
| Whenever we lose track of our own obsessions | A |
| our self concerns because we drift for a minute | I |
| an hour even of pure almost pure | J |
| response to that insouciant life | K |
| cloud bird fox the flow of light the dancing | H |
| pilgrimage of water vast stillness | L |
| of spellbound ephemerae on a lit windowpane | M |
| animal voices mineral hum wind | N |
| conversing with rain ocean with rock stuttering | H |
| of fire to coal then something tethered | O |
| in us hobbled like a donkey on its patch | P |
| of gnawed grass and thistles breaks free | E |
| No one discovers | Q |
| just where we've been when we're caught up again | R |
| into our own sphere where we must | S |
| return indeed to evolve our destinies | T |
| but we have changed a little | U |
Denise Levertov
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