The Edge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJK LMNOPH HCQR STNUACCV WXYZA2 B2D MC2| I thought to die that night in the solitude where they would never find me | A |
| But there was time | B |
| And I lay quietly on the drawn knees of the mountain | C |
| staring into the abyss | D |
| I do not know how long | E |
| I could not count the hours they ran so fast | F |
| Like little bare foot urchins shaking my hands away | G |
| But I remember | H |
| Somewhere water trickled like a thin severed vein | I |
| And a wind came out of the grass | J |
| Touching me gently tentatively like a paw | K |
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| As the night grew | L |
| The gray cloud that had covered the sky like sackcloth | M |
| Fell in ashen folds about the hills | N |
| Like hooded virgins pulling their cloaks about them | O |
| There must have been a spent moon | P |
| For the Tall One's veil held a shimmer of silver | H |
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| That too I remember | H |
| And the tenderly rocking mountain | C |
| Silence | Q |
| And beating stars | R |
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| Dawn | S |
| Lay like a waxen hand upon the world | T |
| And folded hills | N |
| Broke into a sudden wonder of peaks stemming clear and cold | U |
| Till the Tall One bloomed like a lily | A |
| Flecked with sun | C |
| Fine as a golden pollen | C |
| It seemed a wind might blow it from the snow | V |
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| I smelled the raw sweet essences of things | W |
| And heard spiders in the leaves | X |
| And ticking of little feet | Y |
| As tiny creatures came out of their doors | Z |
| To see God pouring light into his star | A2 |
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| It seemed life held | B2 |
| No future and no past but this | D |
| - | |
| And I too got up stiffly from the earth | M |
| And held my heart up like a cup | C2 |
Lola Ridge
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