The End Of March Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHEIJK ALMNOPAQRSST UVWAXLYZPA2B2C2D2TWE 2F2G2WJWAAH2DI2AJ2 HK2L2M2N2O2WWP2HQ2R2

For John Malcolm Brinnin and Bill Read DuxburyA
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It was cold and windy scarcely the dayB
to take a walk on that long beachC
Everything was withdrawn as far as possibleD
indrawn the tide far out the ocean shrunkenE
seabirds in ones or twosF
The rackety icy offshore windG
numbed our faces on one sideH
disrupted the formationE
of a lone flight of Canada geeseI
and blew back the low inaudible rollersJ
in upright steely mistK
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The sky was darker than the waterA
it was the color of mutton fat jadeL
Along the wet sand in rubber boots we followedM
a track of big dog prints so bigN
they were more like lion prints Then we came onO
lengths and lengths endless of wet white stringP
looping up to the tide line down to the waterA
over and over Finally they did endQ
a thick white snarl man size awashR
rising on every wave a sodden ghostS
falling back sodden giving up the ghostS
A kite string But no kiteT
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I wanted to get as far as my proto dream houseU
my crypto dream house that crooked boxV
set up on pilings shingled greenW
a sort of artichoke of a house but greenerA
boiled with bicarbonate of sodaX
protected from spring tides by a palisadeL
of are they railroad tiesY
Many things about this place are dubiousZ
I'd like to retire there and do nothingP
or nothing much forever in two bare roomsA2
look through binoculars read boring booksB2
old long long books and write down useless notesC2
talk to myself and foggy daysD2
watch the droplets slipping heavy with lightT
At night a grog a l'am eacute ricaineW
I'd blaze it with a kitchen matchE2
and lovely diaphanous blue flameF2
would waver doubled in the windowG2
There must be a stove there is a chimneyW
askew but braced with wiresJ
and electricity possiblyW
at least at the back another wireA
limply leashes the whole affairA
to something off behind the dunesH2
A light to read by perfect But impossibleD
And that day the wind was much too coldI2
even to get that farA
and of course the house was boarded upJ2
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On the way back our faces froze on the other sideH
The sun came out for just a minuteK2
For just a minute set in their bezels of sandL2
the drab damp scattered stonesM2
were multi coloredN2
and all those high enough threw out long shadowsO2
individual shadows then pulled them in againW
They could have been teasing the lion sunW
except that now he was behind themP2
a sun who'd walked the beach the last low tideH
making those big majestic paw printsQ2
who perhaps had batted a kite out of the sky to play withR2

Elizabeth Bishop



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