The Shampoo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBC DEDFGF HIHJIJ| The 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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