Unto Thee I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEDD DFDD GDDD HIID JKLM INOP QAJR| unto thee i | A |
| burn incense | B |
| the bowl crackles | C |
| upon the gloom arise purple pencils | C |
| - | |
| fluent spires of fragrance | D |
| the bowl | E |
| seethes | D |
| a flutter of stars | D |
| - | |
| a turbulence of forms | D |
| delightful with indefinable flowering | F |
| the air is | D |
| deep with desirable flowers | D |
| - | |
| i think | G |
| thou lovest incense | D |
| for in the ambiguous faint aspirings | D |
| the indolent frail ascensions | D |
| - | |
| of thy smile rises the immaculate | H |
| sorrow | I |
| of thy low | I |
| hair flutter the level litanies | D |
| - | |
| unto thee i burn | J |
| incense over the dim smoke | K |
| straining my lips are vague with | L |
| ecstasy my palpitating breasts inhale the | M |
| - | |
| slow | I |
| supple | N |
| flower | O |
| of thy beauty my heart discovers thee | P |
| - | |
| unto | Q |
| whom i | A |
| burn | J |
| olbanum | R |
E. E. Cummings
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