The Widening Sky Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKD LMMN| I am so small walking on the beach | A |
| at night under the widening sky | B |
| The wet sand quickens beneath my feet | C |
| and the waves thunder against the shore | D |
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| I am moving away from the boardwalk | E |
| with its colorful streamers of people | F |
| and the hotels with their blinking lights | G |
| The wind sighs for hundreds of miles | H |
| - | |
| I am disappearing so far into the dark | I |
| I have vanished from sight | J |
| I am a tiny seashell | K |
| that has secretly drifted ashore | D |
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| and carries the sound of the ocean | L |
| surging through its body | M |
| I am so small now no one can see me | M |
| How can I be filled with such a vast love | N |
Edward Hirsch
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