Monet Refuses The Operation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCADABEFAGBHIJAKA LAJAAEBMAEENAOEPQOAP AEAAAR| Doctor you say there are no haloes | A |
| around the streetlights in Paris | A |
| and what I see is an aberration | B |
| caused by old age an affliction | B |
| I tell you it has taken me all my life | C |
| to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels | A |
| to soften and blur and finally banish | D |
| the edges you regret I don't see | A |
| to learn that the line I called the horizon | B |
| does not exist and sky and water | E |
| so long apart are the same state of being | F |
| Fifty four years before I could see | A |
| Rouen cathedral is built | G |
| of parallel shafts of sun | B |
| and now you want to restore | H |
| my youthful errors fixed | I |
| notions of top and bottom | J |
| the illusion of three dimensional space | A |
| wisteria separate | K |
| from the bridge it covers | A |
| What can I say to convince you | L |
| the Houses of Parliament dissolves | A |
| night after night to become | J |
| the fluid dream of the Thames | A |
| I will not return to a universe | A |
| of objects that don't know each other | E |
| as if islands were not the lost children | B |
| of one great continent The world | M |
| is flux and light becomes what it touches | A |
| becomes water lilies on water | E |
| above and below water | E |
| becomes lilac and mauve and yellow | N |
| and white and cerulean lamps | A |
| small fists passing sunlight | O |
| so quickly to one another | E |
| that it would take long streaming hair | P |
| inside my brush to catch it | Q |
| To paint the speed of light | O |
| Our weighted shapes these verticals | A |
| burn to mix with air | P |
| and change our bones skin clothes | A |
| to gases Doctor | E |
| if only you could see | A |
| how heaven pulls earth into its arms | A |
| and how infinitely the heart expands | A |
| to claim this world blue vapor without end | R |
Lisel Mueller
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