Little Exercise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCA DAD EFG DHI JAK DLH MNO| For Thomas Edwards Wanning | A |
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| Think of the storm roaming the sky uneasily | B |
| like a dog looking for a place to sleep in | C |
| listen to it growling | A |
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| Think how they must look now the mangrove keys | D |
| lying out there unresponsive to the lightning | A |
| in dark coarse fibred families | D |
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| where occasionally a heron may undo his head | E |
| shake up his feathers make an uncertain comment | F |
| when the surrounding water shines | G |
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| Think of the boulevard and the little palm trees | D |
| all stuck in rows suddenly revealed | H |
| as fistfuls of limp fish skeletons | I |
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| It is raining there The boulevard | J |
| and its broken sidewalks with weeds in every crack | A |
| are relieved to be wet the sea to be freshened | K |
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| Now the storm goes away again in a series | D |
| of small badly lit battle scenes | L |
| each in Another part of the field | H |
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| Think of someone sleeping in the bottom of a row boat | M |
| tied to a mangrove root or the pile of a bridge | N |
| think of him as uninjured barely disturbed | O |
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