After A Long Insomniac Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEB FGAH IJKLM NOP| I walked down to the sea in the early morning | A |
| after a long insomniac night | B |
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| I climbed over the giant gull colored rocks | C |
| and moved past the trees | D |
| tall dancers stretching their limbs | E |
| and warming up in the blue light | B |
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| I entered the salty water a penitent | F |
| whose body was stained | G |
| and swam toward a red star rising | A |
| in the east regal purple robed | H |
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| One shore disappeared behind me | I |
| and another beckoned | J |
| I confess | K |
| that I forgot the person I had been | L |
| as easily as the clouds drifting overhead | M |
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| My hands parted the water | N |
| The wind pressed at my back wings | O |
| and my soul floated over the whitecapped waves | P |
Edward Hirsch
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