The Animals Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDB EFEFGHH IJJKLMINK| They do not live in the world | A |
| Are not in time and space | B |
| From birth to death hurled | A |
| No word do they have not one | C |
| To plant a foot upon | D |
| Were never in any place | B |
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| For with names the world was called | E |
| Out of the empty air | F |
| With names was built and walled | E |
| Line and circle and square | F |
| Dust and emerald | G |
| Snatched from deceiving death | H |
| By the articulate breath | H |
| - | |
| But these have never trod | I |
| Twice the familiar track | J |
| Never never turned back | J |
| Into the memoried day | K |
| All is new and near | L |
| In the unchanging Here | M |
| Of the fifth great day of God | I |
| That shall remain the same | N |
| Never shall pass away | K |
Edwin Muir
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