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 XNot 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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