In Memory Of David Archer (liv) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGDHIJKLMNK OPQPRSTP UVWXYZUX A2B2C2B2B2D2DB2 E2GF2B2UB2F2B2 DSG2UB2SHU SH2I2GGGB2G GJ2B2GK2B2L2G DGGB2MB2B2B2 B2M2B2B2JB2GB2| The words are always as | A |
| strange and dead as those | B |
| fragments and oddments that | C |
| the wave casts up on the shore | D |
| I stand in the sea mist | E |
| gazing down at the white | F |
| words and old bits of wood | G |
| and wonder what they were for | D |
| I think that they were not | H |
| ever intended to do | I |
| what when we seek to speak | J |
| we believe that they may | K |
| they cannot bear us up | L |
| the frothy words and like | M |
| wings at the lame foot | N |
| lift us out of the clay | K |
| - | |
| For all the reflections | O |
| I call up out of the sea | P |
| they seem to speak as the shell | Q |
| seems to speak for the sea | P |
| are no more truly here | R |
| than the wind weaving sand | S |
| into shapes of things | T |
| we think that we know and see | P |
| - | |
| When in the evening sky | U |
| a single star appears | V |
| over my head and the moon | W |
| out of the cloud lifts its face | X |
| when the white gull turns | Y |
| or the high plover hovers | Z |
| to tell me with a cry | U |
| I trespass in this place | X |
| - | |
| What I see then with | A2 |
| that cloud my witness is | B2 |
| not shapes of the mind or wind | C2 |
| like the slow rainbowings | B2 |
| of the dolphin's skin as it dies | B2 |
| but as though from the cloud | D2 |
| I saw my bone walk the shore | D |
| the theology of all things | B2 |
| - | |
| The white stones and the old | E2 |
| odd bits of sea blanched wood | G |
| Overstrand and the swinging | F2 |
| lighthouse glimpsed in the mists | B2 |
| they flash in the prisms and I | U |
| believe for a moment I see | B2 |
| the dazzling atoms dancing | F2 |
| in every thing that exists | B2 |
| - | |
| The children dance on the shore | D |
| The waves dies on the sand | S |
| The spray blows to and fro | G2 |
| the children dance and die | U |
| What waves are these that dance | B2 |
| with the children on the sand | S |
| I hear them calling but cannot | H |
| hear what it is that they cry | U |
| - | |
| I neither understand | S |
| nor know why I am moved | H2 |
| beyond these words by the | I2 |
| odd bits of bleached wood | G |
| cast up on Overstrand | G |
| or by the black and twisted | G |
| October evening tree | B2 |
| dying beside the road | G |
| - | |
| or by the child of midnight | G |
| so deep asleep but still | J2 |
| lost in the corridors | B2 |
| of the mansions of dust | G |
| by any or by all | K2 |
| ceremonial evidence | B2 |
| attesting that we love | L2 |
| simply because we must | G |
| - | |
| I walk upon Overstrand shore | D |
| and the crab at my foot | G |
| inscribes praise in the sand | G |
| The wave bursts with glory | B2 |
| because it rises up like | M |
| angels out of the sea | B2 |
| and the dead starfish burns | B2 |
| on Overstrand promontory | B2 |
| - | |
| Why do I hear them cry | B2 |
| out from the far side of life | M2 |
| those forms and impulses | B2 |
| unborn beyond the sky | B2 |
| Why should they hope and seek | J |
| above all else to be | B2 |
| Tonight on Overstrand | G |
| I know for one moment why | B2 |
George Barker
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