As I Step Over A Puddle At The End Of Winter, I Think Of An Ancient Chinese Governor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB C DEFEEGHEI JEKELEMGENE| And how can I born in evil days | A |
| And fresh from failure ask a kindness of Fate | B |
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| Written A D | C |
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| Po Chu i balding old politician | D |
| What's the use | E |
| I think of you | F |
| Uneasily entering the gorges of the Yang Tze | E |
| When you were being towed up the rapids | E |
| Toward some political job or other | G |
| In the city of Chungshou | H |
| You made it I guess | E |
| By dark | I |
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| But it is it is almost spring again | J |
| And the tall rocks of Minneapolis | E |
| Build me my own black twilight | K |
| Of bamboo ropes and waters | E |
| Where is Yuan Chen the friend you loved | L |
| Where is the sea that once solved the whole loneliness | E |
| Of the Midwest Where is Minneapolis I can see nothing | M |
| But the great terrible oak tree darkening with winter | G |
| Did you find the city of isolated men beyond mountains | E |
| Or have you been holding the end of a frayed rope | N |
| For a thousand years | E |
James Arlington Wright
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