The Bean Field Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB D BE FG H IH JK L MN OB P FQ D NR SH TU VF WT XY ZT BB A2B2 FQ| but infinities also passed out of this life | A |
| not having any witnesses how when or in | B |
| what manner they departed | C |
| Boccaccio The Decameron | B |
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| I | - |
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| Continuation before the event | D |
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| Elusive in | B |
| its hue | E |
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| Gnarled rhizomes lily | F |
| to protect | G |
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| against sudden fever | H |
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| or the body's response | I |
| after exposure | H |
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| as the outer gaseous layers | J |
| of a star's core erode in death | K |
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| More lilies | L |
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| and baths of lavender to bring reprieve | M |
| incarnate | N |
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| Nature will send | O |
| such poison | B |
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| far from the noble organs | P |
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| The moon changed positions slightly | F |
| in the night | Q |
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| but to no great extent | D |
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| The plough failed to cut | N |
| the field | R |
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| II | - |
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| Sometimes they lived and sometimes | S |
| they died the one or the other | H |
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| the earth taking them after the unlawful | T |
| hiding the illicit care | U |
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| when stricken or abandoned | V |
| An accident of pain of the body | F |
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| A refusal indistinguishable from salt | W |
| Salt of refusal | T |
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| to constitute a precedence of the physical outside | X |
| in the hammer the lathe in the loom | Y |
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| which revelation could not destroy | Z |
| To hide inside the visible | T |
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| within an opacity at noon | B |
| Occasionally an oscillation | B |
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| of movement in a passageway courtyard window | A2 |
| Or the illegal step out of doors | B2 |
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| Impossible to leave the density | F |
| of that light | Q |
Jocelyn Emerson
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