Unfinished Landscape With A Dog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDE FG HI J KLM NOPF QFN RF STU IVW O XOB X| Not much of a dog yet | A |
| that smudge in the distance beyond the reach | B |
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| of focus It's just an impressionist | C |
| gesture a guess From the edge of the clearing the farmhouse | D |
| materializes settles | E |
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| into wall amp stone The water | F |
| making the surface | G |
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| of the stream makes | H |
| reflections So why shouldn't the dog | I |
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| accept limits become | J |
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| a figure Is it like the girl who sits | K |
| in the hall closet and says she's not | L |
| hiding She's inside | M |
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| listening without the burden | N |
| of sight letting locations | O |
| release hold Out of body | P |
| they seem lighter her parents' voices no longer | F |
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| hooked to their mouths They seem | Q |
| cleaner Even the electric can opener | F |
| the sounds of children | N |
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| that rise from the yard and fall the opening | R |
| window these are no longer | F |
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| effects things expected | S |
| of a subject and verb The world anyhow is too | T |
| straightforward | U |
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| Maybe the dog | I |
| does not want to be a dog does not want | V |
| to be turned into landscape | W |
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| but to remain in the beginning placeless | O |
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| with the wind opening the wind | X |
| a vowel and the stars and waters | O |
| that flash recoil and retch | B |
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| unnamed as yet unformed unfound | X |
Kate Northrop
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