Repose Of Rivers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJC KLMNO PQRST CA| The willows carried a slow sound | A |
| A sarabande the wind mowed on the mead | B |
| I could never remember | C |
| That seething steady leveling of the marshes | D |
| Till age had brought me to the sea | E |
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| Flags weeds And remembrance of steep alcoves | F |
| Where cypresses shared the noon s | G |
| Tyranny they drew me into hades almost | H |
| And mammoth turtles climbing sulphur dreams | I |
| Yielded while sun silt rippled them | J |
| Asunder | C |
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| How much I would have bartered the black gorge | K |
| And all the singular nestings in the hills | L |
| Where beavers learn stitch and tooth | M |
| The pond I entered once and quickly fled | N |
| I remember now its singing willow rim | O |
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| And finally in that memory all things nurse | P |
| After the city that I finally passed | Q |
| With scalding unguents spread and smoking darts | R |
| The monsoon cut across the delta | S |
| At gulf gates There beyond the dykes | T |
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| I heard wind flaking sapphire like this summer | C |
| And willows could not hold more steady sound | A |
Harold Hart Crane
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Roger: The poem is a river's soliloquy as it heads seaward, and has various experiences, some lovely some frightening, some puzzling. Life is like that.
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