The Secret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGD HIJK LMHN CONP DFIQ RGAS ATIT UVQW| Two girls discover | A |
| the secret of life | B |
| in a sudden line of | C |
| poetry | D |
| - | |
| I who don't know the | E |
| secret wrote | F |
| the line They | G |
| told me | D |
| - | |
| through a third person | H |
| they had found it | I |
| but not what it was | J |
| not even | K |
| - | |
| what line it was No doubt | L |
| by now more than a week | M |
| later they have forgotten | H |
| the secret | N |
| - | |
| the line the name of | C |
| the poem I love them | O |
| for finding what | N |
| I can't find | P |
| - | |
| and for loving me | D |
| for the line I wrote | F |
| and for forgetting it | I |
| so that | Q |
| - | |
| a thousand times till death | R |
| finds them they may | G |
| discover it again in other | A |
| lines | S |
| - | |
| in other | A |
| happenings And for | T |
| wanting to know it | I |
| for | T |
| - | |
| assuming there is | U |
| such a secret yes | V |
| for that | Q |
| most of all | W |
Denise Levertov
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