John Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNEOPQRS TTUVWTNXYZA2B2TTC2D2 E2F2TATNT TG2H2XFTI2TTTTB2J2K2 L2TB2MF2AB2M2AN2Before he wrote a poem he learned the measure | A |
That living in the future gives a farm | B |
Propinquity of mules and cows the charmed | C |
Insouciance of hens the fellowship | D |
At dawn of seed time and of harvest time | E |
But when high noon gave way to evening and | F |
The fences lay bent shadows on the crops | G |
And pastures to the yellowing trees he felt | H |
The presences he felt when over rocks | I |
Through pools and where it wears the bank the stream | J |
Ran bright and dark at once itself its shadow | K |
And suffered in all he knew the antagonists | L |
Related in the Bible in himself | M |
And every new condition from the beginning | N |
As in the autumn leaf and summer prime | E |
Therefore he chose to live the only game | O |
Worthy of repetition in the likeness | P |
Of someone like himself a race of which | Q |
He was the changing distances and ground | R |
The runners and the goal that runs away | S |
Forever into time or like two players | T |
At odds in white and black their dignities | T |
Triumphs refused or losses unredeemed | U |
For the one that it be ever of the pure | V |
Intention that he witnessed in the high | W |
Stained windows of King's Chapel ancestral stories | T |
The old above the new like pages shining | N |
From an essential book he taught his mind | X |
To imitate the meditation sovereign | Y |
In verse and prose of those who shared with him | Z |
Intelligence of beauty good and truth | A2 |
As one unchanging and unchangeable | B2 |
Disinterested excitement through a sentence | T |
Their joy and passion For the other as | T |
A venturer asleep he went among | C2 |
The voiceless and unvisionary many | D2 |
Like one who offers blood to know his fate | E2 |
Or hold his twin again deep in the midnight | F2 |
Baths of New Orleans on its plural beds | T |
And on the secret banks beside its river | A |
The many who anonymous as he was | T |
Uncannily resembled him appearing | N |
Immortal in a finitude of mirrors | T |
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But when the sudden force of the disease | T |
Tossed him in a new garment on the bed | G2 |
Where he had wakened mornings as a child | H2 |
Despised by all the neighbors helpless blind | X |
And vulnerable to every life he listened | F |
Intensely to the roosters mules and cows | T |
As well as to the voices of the desk | I2 |
The chair the books and pictures pastures and fields | T |
The tree of every season the age of seas | T |
And on its surge the age of galaxies | T |
The bells within the spires of Cambridge bodies | T |
And faces revealed or hidden in the flow | B2 |
All that we knew or could imagine joined | J2 |
Together in the sound the stream flows through | K2 |
As witness of itself in every change | L2 |
Each trusting in its continuities | T |
All turning in a final radiant shell | B2 |
Then on his darkened eye he saw himself | M |
A compact disk awhirl played by the light | F2 |
He came from and was ready to reenter | A |
But not before he chose the way to go | B2 |
And so it was before his death he spoke | M2 |
The poem that is his best the final letter | A |
To take to that old country as a passport | N2 |
Edgar Bowers
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