The Helmsman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEF GHIJ KLMNOPCQ RSTLUB VWXYZA2 B2VC2D2 E2JJF2 G2PH2AB| O be swift | A |
| we have always known you wanted us | B |
| - | |
| We fled inland with our flocks | C |
| we pastured them in hollows | D |
| cut off from the wind | E |
| and the salt track of the marsh | F |
| - | |
| We worshipped inland | G |
| we stepped past wood flowers | H |
| we forgot your tang | I |
| we brushed wood grass | J |
| - | |
| We wandered from pine hills | K |
| through oak and scrub oak tangles | L |
| we broke hyssop and bramble | M |
| we caught flower and new bramble fruit | N |
| in our hair we laughed | O |
| as each branch whipped back | P |
| we tore our feet in half buried rocks | C |
| and knotted roots and acorn cups | Q |
| - | |
| We forgot we worshipped | R |
| we parted green from green | S |
| we sought further thickets | T |
| we dipped our ankles | L |
| through leaf mould and earth | U |
| and wood and wood bank enchanted us | B |
| - | |
| and the feel of the clefts in the bark | V |
| and the slope between tree and tree | W |
| and a slender path strung field to field | X |
| and wood to wood | Y |
| and hill to hill | Z |
| and the forest after it | A2 |
| - | |
| We forgot for a moment | B2 |
| tree resin tree bark | V |
| sweat of a torn branch | C2 |
| were sweet to taste | D2 |
| - | |
| We were enchanted with the fields | E2 |
| the tufts of coarse grass | J |
| in the shorter grass | J |
| we loved all this | F2 |
| - | |
| But now our boat climbs hesitates drops | G2 |
| climbs hesitates crawls back | P |
| climbs hesitates | H2 |
| O be swift | A |
| we have always known you wanted us | B |
Hilda Doolittle
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