Love For A Hand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBB DDCEFB AAGHHI JKLMBL| Two hands lie still the hairy and the white | A |
| And soon down ladders of reflected light | A |
| The sleepers climb in silence Gradually | B |
| They separate on paths of long ago | C |
| Each winding on his arm the unpleasant clew | B |
| That leads live as a nerve to memory | B |
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| But often when too steep her dream descends | D |
| Perhaps to the grotto where her father bends | D |
| To pick her up the husband wakes as though | C |
| He had forgotten something in the house | E |
| Motionless he eyes the room that glows | F |
| With the little animals of light that prowl | B |
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| This way and that Soft are the beasts of light | A |
| But softer still her hand that drifts so white | A |
| Upon the whiteness How like a water plant | G |
| It floats upon the black canal of sleep | H |
| Suspended upward from the distant deep | H |
| In pure achievement of its lovely want | I |
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| Quietly then he plucks it and it folds | J |
| And is again a hand small as a child's | K |
| He would revive it but it barely stirs | L |
| And so he carries it off a little way | M |
| And breaks it open gently Now he can see | B |
| The sweetness of the fruit his hand eats hers | L |
Karl Shapiro
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