Iris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJ AKLMC NGOPGQ| Not how you would be thought of your color | A |
| Being grey silky like a second skin your hair | B |
| Flecked with it Now hearing your way of saying | C |
| Iridescent while I read your poem three years | D |
| After your death I am compelled to check | E |
| You out in Ovid Lampri re Bulfin then | F |
| A book of flowers where I discover you | G |
| On marshy ground not grey exactly in fact | H |
| A pretty blue grey a quiet type with a green cowl | I |
| To shelter the thoughtful inclined head | J |
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| Not at all the bright winged messenger | A |
| Who d drown the world if Juno put you up to it | K |
| But a quiet sylph who could color her message | L |
| With a sly tilt of the head those grey eyes steady | M |
| Lips pursed making a pretence of kissing | C |
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| You could supply so many ambiguities | N |
| Gradations and streaks and tones of grey and blue | G |
| That for twenty years I saw your story told | O |
| Where the sky lay on the wintry hills weighed down | P |
| With tears Mnemosyne allows for you | G |
| Flower messenger poet | Q |
James Phillip Mcauley
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