At Ithaca Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG AAFEHHBI JBKBLMNBC MMNOPQQGGRSS DDTBBUUVBWXMDD

Over and backA
the long waves crawlB
and track the sand with foamC
night darkens and the seaD
takes on that desperate toneE
of dark that wives put onF
when all their love is doneG
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Over and backA
the tangled thread falls slackA
over and up and onF
over and all is sewnE
now while I bind the endH
I wish some fiery friendH
would sweep impetuouslyB
these fingers from the loomI
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My weary thoughtsJ
play traitor to my soulB
just as the toil is overK
swift while the woof is wholeB
turn now my spirit swiftL
and tear the pattern thereM
the flowers so deftly wroughtN
the borders of sea blueB
the sea blue coast of homeC
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The web was over fairM
that web of pictures thereM
enchantments that I thoughtN
he had that I had lostO
weaving his happinessP
within the stitching frameQ
weaving his fire and frameQ
I thought my work was doneG
I prayed that only oneG
of those that I had spurnedR
might stoop and conquer thisS
long waiting with a kissS
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But each time that I seeD
my work so beautifullyD
inwoven and would keepT
the picture and the wholeB
Athene steels my soulB
Slanting across my brainU
I see as shafts of rainU
his chariot and his shaftsV
I see the arrows fallB
I see the lord who movesW
like Hector lord of loveX
I see him matched with fairM
bright rivals and I seeD
those lesser rivals fleeD

Hilda Doolittle



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