To The Snake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HHCIJKLMC| Green Snake when I hung you round my neck | A |
| and stroked your cold pulsing throat | B |
| as you hissed to me glinting | C |
| arrowy gold scales and I felt | D |
| the weight of you on my shoulders | E |
| and the whispering silver of your dryness | F |
| sounded close at my ears | G |
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| Green Snake I swore to my companions that certainly | H |
| you were harmless But truly | H |
| I had no certainty and no hope only desiring | C |
| to hold you for that joy | I |
| which left | J |
| a long wake of pleasure as the leaves moved | K |
| and you faded into the pattern | L |
| of grass and shadows and I returned | M |
| smiling and haunted to a dark morning | C |
Denise Levertov
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