The Air Plant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGF HIJI KLML| Grand Cayman | A |
| - | |
| This tuft that thrives on saline nothingness | B |
| Inverted octopus with heavenward arms | C |
| Thrust parching from a palm bole hard by the cove | D |
| A bird almost of almost bird alarms | C |
| - | |
| Is pulmonary to the wind that jars | E |
| Its tentacles horrific in their lurch | F |
| The lizard s throat held bloated for a fly | G |
| Balloons but warily from this throbbing perch | F |
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| The needles and hack saws of cactus bleed | H |
| A milk of earth when stricken off the stalk | I |
| But this defenseless thornless sheds no blood | J |
| Almost no shadow but the air s thin talk | I |
| - | |
| Angelic Dynamo Ventriloquist of the Blue | K |
| While beachward creeps the shark swept Spanish Main | L |
| By what conjunctions do the winds appoint | M |
| Its apotheosis at last the hurricane | L |
Harold Hart Crane
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