The White Bird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFGFHIFJJFF FKLFMNFFJB FBJFF| Man of the flame eyes | A |
| And mouth with the bitter twist of in grown laughter | B |
| And little bald man whose seeming stillness | C |
| Is akin to the velocity of a spinning star | D |
| Holding its perfect poise | E |
| You two yea sayers | F |
| Beetling over the little deniers | F |
| Two great levelers building from the earth up among | G |
| puttiers and pluggers of rotten piles | F |
| You of the rich life running in ample measure amidst | H |
| life deleted of its old raw fire as earth is deleted | I |
| of its coal and iron You be mighty hunters and keepers | F |
| Trotsky and Lenine | J |
| Yet can you hold the unconstrainable One | J |
| Of the slow and flaming deaths | F |
| And multiple resurrections | F |
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| Hands reaching in hundreds of millions | F |
| Backs straightening under the keeling floor of the world | K |
| Can you hold the great white bird | L |
| She that sweeps low over the chain gangs | F |
| When they glance up from their stone breaking | M |
| Into morning's burning gold | N |
| She that goes down into underground cells | F |
| Sending the cool wind of her wings | F |
| Through unsevering stone | J |
| And departs unbeknown from those who announce her | B |
| Saying 'Lo she is ours ' | - |
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| Ah what a mighty destiny shall be yours | F |
| Should you persuade her | B |
| The Unconstrainable One | J |
| Who has slid out of the arms of so many lovers | F |
| Leaving'not'a feather in their hands | F |
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