Palinode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD C EF GH IJ GC GG D GK LM GN GO P| Strange gods occupied no space in that chaotic inflation of dark | A |
| and light | B |
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| or in the exponential expansion of a singular disturbance projecting | C |
| dark matter wind | D |
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| and the seas cooled to within a fraction of waiting | C |
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| let the dry land appear | E |
| let it divide the waters from the waters | F |
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| Here a sudden June rain disturbs the weakly interacting leaves | G |
| of the hickory of the birch | H |
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| And above me they begin their damp and leathery imprinting again | I |
| on the sky | J |
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| on the tarnished outridings inscribed in a mass of starlings | G |
| giving wing | C |
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| No feeling of gravity just these starlings veering in swift updrafts | G |
| within this hueless radius | G |
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| other winds may ease their kind | D |
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| Now giving degree and weight to future vacancies and holding discourse | G |
| with nothing but air | K |
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| they are such light signatures of sources they do not assume | L |
| I close my eyes to hear the wind's agitation | M |
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| the many implements and the many segments and particulates | G |
| these birds stir | N |
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| the limbs boughs other words here without lack or abundance | G |
| and watered the whole of the ground | O |
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| in an indeterminate curvature nearly impossible to follow | P |
Jocelyn Emerson
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