Large Bad Picture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDED FGHG AIJK ELML NOPQ RNRN SPTP| Remembering the Strait of Belle Isle or | A |
| some northerly harbor of Labrador | A |
| before he became a schoolteacher | B |
| a great uncle painted a big picture | B |
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| Receding for miles on either side | C |
| into a flushed still sky | D |
| are overhanging pale blue cliffs | E |
| hundreds of feet high | D |
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| their bases fretted by little arches | F |
| the entrances to caves | G |
| running in along the level of a bay | H |
| masked by perfect waves | G |
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| On the middle of that quiet floor | A |
| sits a fleet of small black ships | I |
| square rigged sails furled motionless | J |
| their spars like burnt match sticks | K |
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| And high above them over the tall cliffs' | E |
| semi translucent ranks | L |
| are scribbled hundreds of fine black birds | M |
| hanging in n's in banks | L |
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| One can hear their crying crying | N |
| the only sound there is | O |
| except for occasional sizhine | P |
| as a large aquatic animal breathes | Q |
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| In the pink light | R |
| the small red sun goes rolling rolling | N |
| round and round and round at the same height | R |
| in perpetual sunset comprehensive consoling | N |
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| while the ships consider it | S |
| Apparently they have reached their destination | P |
| It would be hard to say what brought them there | T |
| commerce or contemplation | P |
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