John Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNEOPQRS TTUVWTNXYZA2B2TTC2D2 E2F2TATNT TG2H2XFTI2TTTTB2J2K2 L2TB2MF2AB2M2AN2

Before he wrote a poem he learned the measureA
That living in the future gives a farmB
Propinquity of mules and cows the charmedC
Insouciance of hens the fellowshipD
At dawn of seed time and of harvest timeE
But when high noon gave way to evening andF
The fences lay bent shadows on the cropsG
And pastures to the yellowing trees he feltH
The presences he felt when over rocksI
Through pools and where it wears the bank the streamJ
Ran bright and dark at once itself its shadowK
And suffered in all he knew the antagonistsL
Related in the Bible in himselfM
And every new condition from the beginningN
As in the autumn leaf and summer primeE
Therefore he chose to live the only gameO
Worthy of repetition in the likenessP
Of someone like himself a race of whichQ
He was the changing distances and groundR
The runners and the goal that runs awayS
Forever into time or like two playersT
At odds in white and black their dignitiesT
Triumphs refused or losses unredeemedU
For the one that it be ever of the pureV
Intention that he witnessed in the highW
Stained windows of King's Chapel ancestral storiesT
The old above the new like pages shiningN
From an essential book he taught his mindX
To imitate the meditation sovereignY
In verse and prose of those who shared with himZ
Intelligence of beauty good and truthA2
As one unchanging and unchangeableB2
Disinterested excitement through a sentenceT
Their joy and passion For the other asT
A venturer asleep he went amongC2
The voiceless and unvisionary manyD2
Like one who offers blood to know his fateE2
Or hold his twin again deep in the midnightF2
Baths of New Orleans on its plural bedsT
And on the secret banks beside its riverA
The many who anonymous as he wasT
Uncannily resembled him appearingN
Immortal in a finitude of mirrorsT
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But when the sudden force of the diseaseT
Tossed him in a new garment on the bedG2
Where he had wakened mornings as a childH2
Despised by all the neighbors helpless blindX
And vulnerable to every life he listenedF
Intensely to the roosters mules and cowsT
As well as to the voices of the deskI2
The chair the books and pictures pastures and fieldsT
The tree of every season the age of seasT
And on its surge the age of galaxiesT
The bells within the spires of Cambridge bodiesT
And faces revealed or hidden in the flowB2
All that we knew or could imagine joinedJ2
Together in the sound the stream flows throughK2
As witness of itself in every changeL2
Each trusting in its continuitiesT
All turning in a final radiant shellB2
Then on his darkened eye he saw himselfM
A compact disk awhirl played by the lightF2
He came from and was ready to reenterA
But not before he chose the way to goB2
And so it was before his death he spokeM2
The poem that is his best the final letterA
To take to that old country as a passportN2

Edgar Bowers



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