- Shall Become As - Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIG IJKLM IGNBO HCGGH PQRSB TBOUD| You put this pen | A |
| in my hand and you | B |
| take the pen from | C |
| my hand the night | D |
| before the full moon | E |
| - | |
| the moon seems | F |
| full what is missing | G |
| is a dark hungry | H |
| sickle the sliver | I |
| of shadow eating | G |
| - | |
| us up inside after | I |
| the mountains breathe | J |
| their mint and sorrow | K |
| green against the long | L |
| summer sky they burst | M |
| - | |
| into hot october | I |
| laughter lighting | G |
| the horizon with citrus | N |
| rust and blood you | B |
| put this knife in my | O |
| - | |
| hand we pull we | H |
| meet as oceans come | C |
| together heaving | G |
| against and clinging | G |
| across our salt watery | H |
| - | |
| boundary we approach | P |
| endlessly like two rails | Q |
| of one track tied | R |
| in a parallel that | S |
| promises our eyes to | B |
| - | |
| merge someplace far | T |
| off in the distance you | B |
| put this feather in my | O |
| palm my fingers | U |
| close around flight | D |
Evie Shockley
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