A Quiet Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CC DE FG HC IJ KL| When music is far enough away | A |
| the eyelid does not often move | B |
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| and objects are still as lavender | C |
| without breath or distant rejoinder | C |
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| The cloud is then so subtly dragged | D |
| away by the silver flying machine | E |
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| that the thought of it alone echoes | F |
| unbelievably the sound of the motor falls | G |
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| like a coin toward the ocean's floor | H |
| and the eye does not flicker | C |
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| as it does when in the loud sun a coin | I |
| rises and nicks the near air Now | J |
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| slowly the heart breathes to music | K |
| while the coins lie in wet yellow sand | L |
Frank O'hara
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