Amateurs Of Heaven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GCHIJK LMNOPO QRSTSU| Two lovers to a midnight meadow came | A |
| High in the hills to lie there hand and hand | B |
| Like effigies and look up at the stars | C |
| The never setting ones set in the North | D |
| To circle the Pole in idiot majesty | E |
| And wonder what was given them to wonder | F |
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| Being amateurs they knew some of the names | G |
| By rote and could attach the names to stars | C |
| And draw the lines invisible between | H |
| That humbled all the heavenly things to farm | I |
| And forest things and even kitchen things | J |
| A bear a wagon a long handled ladle | K |
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| Could wonder at the shadow of the world | L |
| That brought those lights to light could wonder too | M |
| At the ancestral eyes and the dark mind | N |
| Behind them that had reached the length of light | O |
| To name the stars and draw the animals | P |
| And other stuff that dangled in the height | O |
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| Or was it the deep Did they look in | Q |
| Or out the lovers till they grew bored | R |
| As even lovers will and got up to go | S |
| But drunken now with staggering and dizziness | T |
| Because the spell of earth had moved them so | S |
| Hallucinating that the heavens moved | U |
Howard Nemerov
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