The Geranium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDE FGH IJK B LMN O FP Q OOJ FR HS TU VWG PCP XNY ZA2| How can you stand it looking at things | A |
| For example the geranium | B |
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| out on the patio the single pink | C |
| blossom in the sun Or stand the sunlight | D |
| moving through it | E |
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| illuminating holding the flower open like a high | F |
| clear note an ecstatic | G |
| widening | H |
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| which arrives arrives What | I |
| do you do with it While the shrubs and the lowest | J |
| overhanging leaves | K |
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| lift slightly in the wind the blossom | B |
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| doesn't move It's the object | L |
| of affection and this is how | M |
| it hurts you | N |
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| by holding the note open | O |
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| Past the front of the apartment traffic goes by | F |
| one truck then another | P |
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| comes on disappears And I have | Q |
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| the blossom in my vision | O |
| sunlight like vision | O |
| making clear the tiniest | J |
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| hidden veins I don't know why | F |
| I should be here alive | R |
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| and having to see this this bright thing | H |
| living in time | S |
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| or have to see it later at the end | T |
| of the afternoon when the sun's | U |
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| lower its light diagonal across the pot | V |
| its light then pulling away | W |
| across the mossed brick | G |
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| like a wave only slower | P |
| slower The blossom is still pink | C |
| but no longer | P |
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| brilliant I'll go back | X |
| into the kitchen But you are you stronger than I Can you | N |
| stay in love with it Make promises | Y |
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| marry it Are you so sure | Z |
| of your position in the world | A2 |
Kate Northrop
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