At Ithaca Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG AAFEHHBI JBKBLMNBC MMNOPQQGGRSS DDTBBUUVBWXMDDOver and back | A |
the long waves crawl | B |
and track the sand with foam | C |
night darkens and the sea | D |
takes on that desperate tone | E |
of dark that wives put on | F |
when all their love is done | G |
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Over and back | A |
the tangled thread falls slack | A |
over and up and on | F |
over and all is sewn | E |
now while I bind the end | H |
I wish some fiery friend | H |
would sweep impetuously | B |
these fingers from the loom | I |
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My weary thoughts | J |
play traitor to my soul | B |
just as the toil is over | K |
swift while the woof is whole | B |
turn now my spirit swift | L |
and tear the pattern there | M |
the flowers so deftly wrought | N |
the borders of sea blue | B |
the sea blue coast of home | C |
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The web was over fair | M |
that web of pictures there | M |
enchantments that I thought | N |
he had that I had lost | O |
weaving his happiness | P |
within the stitching frame | Q |
weaving his fire and frame | Q |
I thought my work was done | G |
I prayed that only one | G |
of those that I had spurned | R |
might stoop and conquer this | S |
long waiting with a kiss | S |
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But each time that I see | D |
my work so beautifully | D |
inwoven and would keep | T |
the picture and the whole | B |
Athene steels my soul | B |
Slanting across my brain | U |
I see as shafts of rain | U |
his chariot and his shafts | V |
I see the arrows fall | B |
I see the lord who moves | W |
like Hector lord of love | X |
I see him matched with fair | M |
bright rivals and I see | D |
those lesser rivals flee | D |
Hilda Doolittle
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