The Well Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDE EFFCGFHI JKLF| At sixteen I believed the moonlight | A |
| could change me if it would | B |
| I moved my head | C |
| on the pillow even moved my bed | C |
| as the moon slowly | D |
| crossed the open lattice | E |
| - | |
| I wanted beauty a dangerous | E |
| gleam of steel my body thinner | F |
| my pale face paler | F |
| I moonbathed | C |
| diligently as others sunbathe | G |
| But the moon's unsmiling stare | F |
| kept me awake Mornings | H |
| I was flushed and cross | I |
| - | |
| It was on dark nights of deep sleep | J |
| that I dreamed the most sunk in the well | K |
| and woke rested and if not beautiful | L |
| filled with some other power | F |
Denise Levertov
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