Witnessing The Launch Of The Shuttle Atlantis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKFELFMNOCP EQEFEEEO| So much of life in the world is waiting that | A |
| This day was no exception so we waited | B |
| All morning long and into the afternoon | C |
| I spent some of the time remembering | D |
| Dante who did the voyage in the mind | E |
| Alone with no more nor heavier machinery | F |
| Than the ghost of a girl giving him guidance | G |
| And wondered if much was lost to gain all this | H |
| New world of engine and energy where dream | I |
| Translates into deed But when the thing went up | J |
| It was indeed impressive as if hell | K |
| Itself opened to send its emissary | F |
| In search of heaven or 'the unpeopled world' | E |
| thus Dante of doomed Ulysses 'behind the sun ' | L |
| So much of life in the world is memory | F |
| That the moment of the happening itself | M |
| So much with noise and smoke and rising clear | N |
| To vanish at the limit of our vision | O |
| Into the light blue light of afternoon | C |
| Appeared no more against the void in aim | P |
| Than the flare of a match in sunlight quickly snuffed | E |
| What yet may come of this We cannot know | Q |
| Great things are promised as the promised land | E |
| Promised to Moses that he would not see | F |
| But a distant sight of though the children would | E |
| The world is made of pictures of the world | E |
| And the pictures change the world into another world | E |
| We cannot know as we knew not this one | O |
Howard Nemerov
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