In The Footsteps Of The Walking Air Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DE CFGH IJ KKCL| In the footsteps of the walking air | A |
| Sky's prophetic chickens weave their cloth of awe | B |
| And hillsides lift green wings in somber journeying | C |
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| Night in his soft haste bumps on the shoulders of the abyss | D |
| And a single drop of dark blood covers the earth | E |
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| Now is the China of the spirit at walking | C |
| In my reaches | F |
| A sable organ sounds in my gathered will | G |
| And love's inscrutable skeleton sings | H |
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| My seeing moves under a vegetable shroud | I |
| And dead forests stand where once Mary stood | J |
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| Sullen stone dogs wait in the groves of water | K |
| Though the wanderer drown his welfare is as a fire | K |
| That burns at the bottom of the sea warming | C |
| Unknown roads for sleep to walk upon | L |
Kenneth Patchen
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