The Cloth Of The Tempest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEDEFEDGHID HDJKEEDLDEM FDNFEDEODEHDPEQDR| These of living emanate a formidable light | A |
| Which is equal to death and when used | B |
| Gives increase eternally | C |
| What fortifies in separate thought | D |
| Is not drawn by wind or by man defiled | D |
| So whispers the parable of doubleness | E |
| As it is necessary not to submit | D |
| To power which weakens the hidden forms | E |
| It is extraordinarily more essential | F |
| Not to deny welcome to these originating forces | E |
| When they gather within our heat | D |
| To give us habitation | G |
| The one life must be attempted with the other | H |
| That we may embark upon the fiery work | I |
| For which we were certainly made | D |
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| What has been separated from the mother | H |
| Must again be joined for we were born of spirit | D |
| And to spirit all mortal things return | J |
| As it is necessary in the method of earth | K |
| So sings the parable of singleness | E |
| My comforter does not conceal his face | E |
| I have seen appearances that were not marshalled | D |
| By sleep | L |
| Perhaps I am to be stationed | D |
| At the nets which move through this completing sea | E |
| Or I have hunting on my sign | M |
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| Yet the ground is visible | F |
| The center of our seeing The houses rest | D |
| Like sentinels on this hawking star | N |
| Two women are bathing near a trestle | F |
| Their bodies dress the world in golden birds | E |
| The skin of their throats is a dancing flute | D |
| How alter or change How properly | E |
| Find an exact equation What is flying | O |
| Anywhere that is more essential to our quest | D |
| Even the lake boat walking on its blue streets | E |
| Organ of thunder muttering in the sky A tiger | H |
| Standing on the edge of a plowed field | D |
| What is necessary What is inseparable to know | P |
| The children seek silvery pretty caves | E |
| What are we to teach | Q |
| The distance is not great | D |
| To worlds of magnificent joy or nowhere | R |
Kenneth Patchen
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