In Praise Of Dawn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHEIJ AKLMJN HOBPLG QRISTK

You can keep afternoon and its dwindling mysteriesA
twilight with its seedy hauteur You can have nightB
with its phony neon and rented motel roomsC
I prefer morning when the air is so quiet the rubD
of a cricket's leg sounds like wildness beckoningE
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My feet pad along the carpet like bears' pawsF
along a stretch of furred moss The cherry treeG
catches the first glint of gold in its deep greenH
The kitchen is mine empty and hummingE
I am queen of the breakfast room empressI
of a new regime Ideas sprout from my headJ
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like bursts of startled blue jays All possibilitiesA
lie before me in the rustle of leaves at the windowK
Something extraordinary is about to happenL
I could write an essay on forgivenessM
or construct an altar to Artemis with five redJ
maple leaves a fish bone and a snake's rattleN
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I have imagined dawn lifting her skirt the limousineH
of night pausing to release debutantes in importantO
gowns I have watched schools of lightB
emerge from a window's shoreline and know thatP
beginning is always beginning every midnight openL
to a river of mornings the day a fresh tributaryG
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Anything is possible understanding quantum physicsQ
making plans for an innocent city Pain could disappearR
by sundown Night could wear a sunlit dressI
We could start a journey to the new JerusalemS
waving good bye at the station where the trains passT
and dawn blank as a newborn floods each windowK

Geraldine Connolly



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