The Journey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADE FGHIJ JK LJCMNNNOPQ JR SJJCJJJJTJJ| Anghiari is medieval a sleeve sloping down | A |
| A steep hill suddenly sweeping out | B |
| To the edge of a cliff and dwindling | C |
| But far up the mountain behind the town | A |
| We too were swept out out by the wind | D |
| Alone with the Tuscan grass | E |
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| Wind had been blowing across the hills | F |
| For days and everything now was graying gold | G |
| With dust everything we saw even | H |
| Some small children scampering along a road | I |
| Twittering Italian to a small caged bird | J |
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| We sat beside them to rest in some brushwood | J |
| And I leaned down to rinse the dust from my face | K |
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| I found the spider web there whose hinges | L |
| Reeled heavily and crazily with the dust | J |
| Whole mounds and cemeteries of it sagging | C |
| And scattering shadows among shells and wings | M |
| And then she stepped into the center of air | N |
| Slender and fastidious the golden hair | N |
| Of daylight along her shoulders she poised there | N |
| While ruins crumbled on every side of her | O |
| Free of the dust as though a moment before | P |
| She had stepped inside the earth to bathe herself | Q |
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| I gazed close to her till at last she stepped | J |
| Away in her own good time | R |
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| Many men | S |
| Have searched all over Tuscany and never found | J |
| What I found there the heart of the light | J |
| Itself shelled and leaved balancing | C |
| On filaments themselves falling The secret | J |
| Of this journey is to let the wind | J |
| Blow its dust all over your body | J |
| To let it go on blowing to step lightly lightly | J |
| All the way through your ruins and not to lose | T |
| Any sleep over the dead who surely | J |
| Will bury their own don't worry | J |
James Arlington Wright
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