The Shampoo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBC DEDFGF HIHJIJThe still explosions on the rocks | A |
the lichens grow | B |
by spreading gray concentric shocks | A |
They have arranged | C |
to meet the rings around the moon although | B |
within our memories they have not changed | C |
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And since the heavens will attend | D |
as long on us | E |
you've been dear friend | D |
precipitate and pragmatical | F |
and look what happens For Time is | G |
nothing if not amenable | F |
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The shooting stars in your black hair | H |
in bright formation | I |
are flocking where | H |
so straight so soon | J |
Come let me wash it in this big tin basin | I |
battered and shiny like the moon | J |
Elizabeth Bishop
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