In A Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEEFBGH BIJDKLBBMAN| My love and I are inventing a country which we | A |
| can already see taking shape as if wheels were | B |
| passing through yellow mud But there is a prob | C |
| lem if we put a river in the country it will thaw | D |
| and begin flooding If we put the river on the bor | B |
| der there will be trouble If we forget about the | E |
| river there will be no way out There is already a | E |
| sky over that country waiting for clouds or smoke | F |
| Birds have flown into it too Each evening more | B |
| trees fill with their eyes and what they see we can | G |
| never erase | H |
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| One day it was snowing heavily and again we were | B |
| lying in bed watching our country we could | I |
| make out the wide river for the first time blue and | J |
| moving We seemed to be getting closer we saw | D |
| our wheel tracks leading into it and curving out | K |
| of sight behind us It looked like the land we had | L |
| left some smoke in the distance but I wasn't sure | B |
| There were birds calling The creaking of our | B |
| wheels And as we entered that country it felt as if | M |
| someone was touching our bare shoulders lightly | A |
| for the last time | N |
Larry Levis
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