The Colder The Air Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCA DEDEFD GHIHIG| We must admire her perfect aim | A |
| this huntress of the winter air | B |
| whose level weapon needs no sight | C |
| if it were not that everywhere | B |
| her game is sure her shot is right | C |
| The least of us could do the same | A |
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| The chalky birds or boats stand still | D |
| reducing her conditions of chance | E |
| air's gallery marks identically | D |
| the narrow gallery of her glance | E |
| The target center in her eye | F |
| is equally her aim and will | D |
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| Time's in her pocket ticking loud | G |
| on one stalled second She'll consult | H |
| not time nor circumstance She calls | I |
| on atmosphere for her result | H |
| It is this clock that later falls | I |
| in wheels and chimes of leaf and cloud | G |
Elizabeth Bishop
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