Stepping Westward Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDBECCFCGCHICJCCB KCBCJLCCMCBC| What is green in me | A |
| darkens muscadine | B |
| If woman is inconstant | C |
| good I am faithful to | C |
| ebb and flow I fall | D |
| in season and now | B |
| is a time of ripening | E |
| If her part | C |
| is to be true | C |
| a north star | F |
| good I hold steady | C |
| in the black sky | G |
| and vanish by day | C |
| yet burn there | H |
| in blue or above | I |
| quilts of cloud | C |
| There is no savor | J |
| more sweet more salt | C |
| than to be glad to be | C |
| what woman | B |
| and who myself | K |
| I am a shadow | C |
| that grows longer as the sun | B |
| moves drawn out | C |
| on a thread of wonder | J |
| If I bear burdens | L |
| they begin to be remembered | C |
| as gifts goods a basket | C |
| of bread that hurts | M |
| my shoulders but closes me | C |
| in fragrance I can | B |
| eat as I go | C |
Denise Levertov
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