A Poet Looks At The Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB BAC DE FGED BHD I| I hear a woman singing in my garden | A |
| But I look at the moon in spite of her | B |
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| I have no thought of trying to find the singer | B |
| Singing in my garden | A |
| I am looking at the moon | C |
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| And I think the moon is honouring me | D |
| With a long silver look | E |
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| I blink | F |
| As bats fly black across the ray | G |
| But when I raise my head the silver look | E |
| Is still upon me | D |
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| The moon delights to make eyes of poets her mirror | B |
| And poets are many as dragon scales | H |
| On the moonlit sea | D |
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| From the Chinese of Chang Jo Hsu | I |
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