Zeroing In Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIEJKLMNOPQRJ STAUDVWUXYZA2B2AZC2| I am a landscape he said | A |
| a landscape and a person walking in that landscape | B |
| There are daunting cliffs there | C |
| And plains glad in their way | D |
| of brown monotony But especially | E |
| there are sinkholes places | F |
| of sudden terror of small circumference | G |
| and malevolent depths | H |
| I know she said When I set forth | I |
| to walk in myself as it might be | E |
| on a fine afternoon forgetting | J |
| sooner or later I come to where sedge | K |
| and clumps of white flowers rue perhaps | L |
| mark the bogland and I know | M |
| there are quagmires there that can pull you | N |
| down and sink you in bubbling mud | O |
| We had an old dog he told her when I was a boy | P |
| a good dog friendly But there was an injured spot | Q |
| on his head if you happened | R |
| just to touch it he'd jump up yelping | J |
| and bite you He bit a young child | S |
| they had to take him down to the vet's and destroy him | T |
| No one knows where it is she said | A |
| and even by accident no one touches it | U |
| It's inside my landscape and only I making my way | D |
| preoccupied through my life crossing my hills | V |
| sleeping on green moss of my own woods | W |
| I myself without warning touch it | U |
| and leap up at myself | X |
| or flinch back | Y |
| just in time | Z |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Yes we learn that | A2 |
| It's not a terror it's pain we're talking about | B2 |
| those places in us like your dog's bruised head | A |
| that are bruised forever that time | Z |
| never assuages never | C2 |
Denise Levertov
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