I Held A Shelley Manuscript Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD AEF DGHI JKLDMD| My hands did numb to beauty | A |
| as they reached into Death and tightened | B |
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| O sovereign was my touch | C |
| upon the tan inks's fragile page | D |
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| Quickly my eyes moved quickly | A |
| sought for smell for dust for lace | E |
| for dry hair | F |
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| I would have taken the page | D |
| breathing in the crime | G |
| For no evidence have I wrung from dreams | H |
| yet what triumph is there in private credence | I |
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| Often in some steep ancestral book | J |
| when I find myself entangled with leopard apples | K |
| and torched skin mushrooms | L |
| my cypressean skein outreaches the recorded age | D |
| and I as though tipping a pitcher of milk | M |
| pour secrecy upon the dying page | D |
Gregory Corso
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