Poor Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEFIt is not heaven bitter seed | A |
Leavens its entrails with despair | B |
It is a star where dragons breed | A |
Devils have a footing there | B |
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The sky has bent it out of shape | C |
The sun has strapped it to his wheel | D |
Its course is crooked to escape | C |
Traps and gins of stone and steel | D |
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It balances on air and spins | E |
Snared by strong transparent space | F |
I forgive it all its sins | E |
I kiss the scars upon its face | F |
Elinor Morton Wylie
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