The Visitor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDE FGH IJ KLM BNO PG| Down the hill in the field of sweet alfalfa they're | A |
| freezing each other the children | B |
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| playing tag and I'm up at the house I'm | C |
| in the picture window thin | D |
| and distant like the glimpse | E |
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| of a surfacing fish What dark waters | F |
| the house is behind me settling | G |
| into evening Dusk | H |
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| and there are of course fireflies Tell me | I |
| what was your name When you visited once | J |
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| by the backroad where the stones glowed pale | K |
| in the moonlight I was too young I still thought | L |
| I belonged to the world But now | M |
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| quartered in this house watching the neighbors' children | B |
| turn to dusk I feel | N |
| I'm ready Come back | O |
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| and bring your finest wine the oldest bottle | P |
| Bring that strange dusty book you were reading | G |
Kate Northrop
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