Shells Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HIJKLMNJO JPJQ| Reaching down arm deep into bright water | A |
| I gathered on white sand under waves | B |
| Shells drifted up on beaches where I alone | C |
| Inhabit a finite world of years and days | D |
| I reached my arm down a myriad years | E |
| To gather treasure from the yester milliennial sea floor | F |
| Held in my fingers forms shaped on the day of creation | G |
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| Building their beauty in three dimensions | H |
| Over which the world recedes away from us | I |
| And in the fourth that takes away ourselves | J |
| From moment to moment and from year to year | K |
| From first to last they remain in their continuous present | L |
| The helix revolves like a timeless thought | M |
| Instantaneous from apex to rim | N |
| Like a dance whose figure is limpet or murex | J |
| cowrie or golden winkle | O |
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| They sleep on the ocean floor like humming tops | J |
| Whose music is the mother of pearl octave of the rainbow | P |
| Harmonious shells that whisper forever in our ears | J |
| The world that you inhabit has not yet been created | Q |
Kathleen Jessie Raine
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