I'm Going To Start Living Like A Mystic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EF GA HI JK FE| Today I am pulling on a green wool sweater | A |
| and walking across the park in a dusky snowfall | B |
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| The trees stand like twenty seven prophets in a field | C |
| each a station in a pilgrimage silent pondering | D |
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| Blue flakes of light falling across their bodies | E |
| are the ciphers of a secret an occultation | F |
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| I will examine their leaves as pages in a text | G |
| and consider the bookish pigeons students of winter | A |
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| I will kneel on the track of a vanquished squirrel | H |
| and stare into a blank pond for the figure of Sophia | I |
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| I shall begin scouring the sky for signs | J |
| as if my whole future were constellated upon it | K |
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| I will walk home alone with the deep alone | F |
| a disciple of shadows in praise of the mysteries | E |
Edward Hirsch
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