Cutting Glass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EF GH IJ KL MN| It takes a long smooth stroke practiced carefully | A |
| over many years and made with one steady motion | B |
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| You do not really cut glass you score its length | C |
| with a sharp revolving wheel at the end of a tool | D |
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| not much bigger than a pen knife Glass is liquid | E |
| sleeping The line you make goes through the sheet | F |
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| like a wave through water or a voice calling in a dream | G |
| but calling only once If the glazier knows how to work | H |
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| without hesitation glass begins to remember Watch now | I |
| how he draws the line and taps the edge the pieces | J |
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| break apart like a book opened to a favorite passage | K |
| Each time what he finds is something already there | L |
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| In its waking state glass was fire once and brightness | M |
| all that becomes clear when you hold up the new pane | N |
Jared Carter
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