Imaginary Weather Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEF GHIHEJK LHM NHOPQR LQSTU HQ L HLH VQW U XThe consolations of space are nameless things | A |
Wallace Stevens | B |
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The year is late The Northern Cross appears | C |
six slight rivets of light fastening Cygnus to | D |
In Cassiopeia Brahe's brilliant sublunary | E |
addition of | F |
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displaced belief in the single objective point | G |
of observation | H |
impelling the eye | I |
Through what accretion or division | H |
are we reflected in a constellation's core | E |
By what change in form | J |
of movement are we altered in our own mass | K |
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In the lower atmosphere drifting stratus displays | L |
a stratified enunciation | H |
a long displacing glance | M |
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Slight residue of rain taps on the roof | N |
an unexpected dissipation | H |
glancing all the forms footbridge street lamp | O |
wind picking up holding each | P |
in an imaginary singularity carrying | Q |
one leaf into brief postponement | R |
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Outside a half lit mall along the walkways | L |
bare gingkoes fruit crushed beneath the treading | Q |
threaded by the wrens' caterwaul | S |
a patterned plenitude illuminating the facade brick by brick | T |
Buses pull out mid phrasing the night | U |
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In the midst of half illumination | H |
all transformability beginning | Q |
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in the austere watchfulness | L |
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With effort with the minute by minute of mortal design | H |
reflection inflection substance | L |
for light's absorption | H |
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what spirit is again shaped by this formless wind | V |
its invariant rest reconfigured and singing | Q |
in the form of physical song | W |
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its particulate and finite flight | U |
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for D E | X |
Jocelyn Emerson
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