The Color Of Snow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEF GHIJK LMNCO PQR OSTUVWXLY ZCA2B2C CC2LTLC| For David Karetsky April March killed in an avalanche | A |
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| Putting the skis down | B |
| in the white snow | C |
| the wind singing | D |
| the blizzard of time | E |
| going past your eyes | F |
| - | |
| it is a little | G |
| like being snowed in | H |
| in the Connecticut house | I |
| on a day when the world | J |
| goes away | K |
| - | |
| and only the white dog | L |
| follows you out | M |
| to make fresh tracks | N |
| in the long blue shadow | C |
| of the mountain | O |
| - | |
| We are all halfway there | P |
| preferring not | Q |
| to think about it | R |
| - | |
| You went down the mountain | O |
| first | S |
| in a blaze of light | T |
| reminding us | U |
| to seize our lives | V |
| to live with the wind | W |
| whistling in our ears | X |
| and the light bedazzling | L |
| the tips of our skis | Y |
| - | |
| and the people we love | Z |
| waiting in the lodge below | C |
| scribbling lines | A2 |
| on paper the color | B2 |
| of snow | C |
| - | |
| knowing there is no | C |
| holding on | C2 |
| but only the wind singing | L |
| and these lines of light | T |
| shining | L |
| in the fresh snow | C |
Erica Jong
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