North Haven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDAE BFGHG IJCKC LMHNH OPQBR SCTMT| i In Memoriam Robert Lowell i | A |
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| I can make out the rigging of a schooner | B |
| a mile off I can count | C |
| the new cones on the spruce It is so still | D |
| the pale bay wears a milky skin the sky | A |
| no clouds except for one long carded horse s tail | E |
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| The islands haven't shifted since last summer | B |
| even if I like to pretend they have | F |
| drifting in a dreamy sort of way | G |
| a little north a little south or sidewise | H |
| and that they re free within the blue frontiers of bay | G |
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| This month our favorite one is full of flowers | I |
| buttercups red clover purple vetch | J |
| hackweed still burning daisies pied eyebright | C |
| the fragrant bedstraw's incandescent stars | K |
| and more returned to paint the meadows with delight | C |
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| The goldfinches are back or others like them | L |
| and the white throated sparrow's five note song | M |
| pleading and pleading brings tears to the eyes | H |
| Nature repeats herself or almost does | N |
| repeat repeat repeat revise revise revise | H |
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| Years ago you told me it was here | O |
| in you first discovered girls | P |
| and learned to sail and learned to kiss | Q |
| You had such fun you said that classic summer | B |
| Fun it always seemed to leave you at a loss | R |
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| You left North Haven anchored in its rock | S |
| afloat in mystic blue And now you've left | C |
| for good You can't derange or rearrange | T |
| your poems again But the sparrows can their song | M |
| The words won't change again Sad friend you cannot change | T |
Elizabeth Bishop
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