Ocean Descant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DE FG HI A JKDLMLHN A EO PQ R R ST DU DV DW DQE XRQ| I | A |
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| And together we're pulled closer into the absence | B |
| permeated by recurrent distortions in our knowledge | C |
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| our luminous arguments spun out our rare velocities radiating | D |
| from an emptiness at the core | E |
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| And now our ruling differences are all flaws in equivalent flow | F |
| our old iconicity of greening sheaf of sheet | G |
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| All our sweet purchases already starting toward inversion | H |
| All matter draining energy from the gravitational field | I |
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| II | A |
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| Unraveling wave stringent fluidity | J |
| holding the inversions the aqueous | K |
| version so certain in its dragging | D |
| kelp crab conch whelk the pebbles | L |
| and glass wooden planks | M |
| and a barnacled clatter of gulls | L |
| Graveled alluvion | H |
| All distance hauls | N |
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| III | A |
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| An imprint in the shape of its own erasure | E |
| how it's pressing itself into pattern and disparity in the ashen light | O |
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| And the bodies the limbs and faces rough with it | P |
| unfinished in their marble enclosures | Q |
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| sufficient in their own kind of life | R |
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| IV | R |
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| Rain opening apparently indefinite | S |
| Working inside an isotropic flanking wind | T |
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| precipitate downpours tear at the netting | D |
| of our contending inventions | U |
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| and at all our erratic inveighing | D |
| A leveling brackish wind shifts | V |
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| inside our empty lexicon accumulating | D |
| differences sharpening them | W |
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| its cantillation scraping | D |
| at the inexorable lovers | Q |
| infalling matter | E |
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| using us away | X |
| to the underside of wave | R |
| to the salt vicinities | Q |
Jocelyn Emerson
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