A Winter Daybreak Above Vence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFGHIJKLMNOP CQRESITUVW XTYEZA2HIB2 IC2D2UPEEC| The night's drifts | A |
| Pile up below me and behind my back | B |
| Slide down the hill rise again and build | C |
| Eerie little dunes on the roof of the house | D |
| In the valley below me | E |
| Miles between me and the town of St Jeannet | C |
| The road lamps glow | F |
| They are so cold they might as well be dark | G |
| Trucks and cars | H |
| Cough and drone down there between the golden | I |
| Coffins of greenhouses the startled squawk | J |
| Of a rooster claws heavily across | K |
| A grove and drowns | L |
| The gumming snarl of some grouchy dog sounds | M |
| And a man bitterly shifts his broken gears | N |
| True night still hangs on | O |
| Mist cluttered with a racket of its own | P |
| - | |
| Now on the mountainside | C |
| A little way downhill among turning rucks | Q |
| A square takes form in the side of a dim wall | R |
| I hear a bucket rattle or something tinny | E |
| No other stirring behind the dim face | S |
| Of the goatherd's house I imagine | I |
| His goats are still sleeping dreaming | T |
| Of the fresh roses | U |
| Beyond the walls of the greenhouse below them | V |
| And of lettuce leaves opening in Tunisia | W |
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| I turn and somehow | X |
| Impossibly hovering in the air over everything | T |
| The Mediterranean nearer to the moon | Y |
| Than this mountain is Shines A voice clearly | E |
| Tells me to snap out of it Galway | Z |
| Mutters out of the house and up the stone stairs | A2 |
| To start the motor The moon and the stars | H |
| Suddenly flicker out and the whole mountain | I |
| Appears pale as a shell | B2 |
| - | |
| Look the sea has not fallen and broken | I |
| Our heads How can I feel so warm | C2 |
| Here in the dead center of January I can | D2 |
| Scarcely believe it and yet I have to this is | U |
| The only life I have I get up from the stone | P |
| My body mumbles something unseemly | E |
| And follows me Now we are all sitting here strangely | E |
| On top of sunlight | C |
James Arlington Wright
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