Wild Duck Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHHHIJKLHMHINOP QRP A HHPSTUHFHVWHXA| I | A |
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| That was a great night we spied upon | B |
| See sawing home | C |
| Singing a hot sweet song to the super stars | D |
| Shuffling off behind the smoke haze | E |
| Fog horns sentimentalizing on the river | F |
| Lights dwindling to shining slits | G |
| In the wet asphalt | H |
| Purring lights red and green and golden whiskered | H |
| Digging daintily pointed claws in the soft mud | H |
| But you did not know | I |
| As the trains made golden augers | J |
| Boring in the darkness | K |
| How my heart kept racing out along the rails | L |
| As a spider runs along a thread | H |
| And hauls him in again | M |
| To some drawing point | H |
| You did not know | I |
| How wild ducks' wings | N |
| Itch at dawn | O |
| How at dawn the necks of wild ducks | P |
| Arch to the sun | Q |
| And new mown air | R |
| Trickles sweet in their gullets | P |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| As water cleared of the reflection of a bird | H |
| That has lately flown across it | H |
| Yet trembles with the beating of its wings | P |
| So my soul emptied of the known you utterly | S |
| Is yet vibrant with the cadence of the song | T |
| You might have been | U |
| 'Twas a great night | H |
| With never a waste look over a shoulder | F |
| Curved to the crook of the wind | H |
| And a great word we threw | V |
| For memory to play knuckles with | W |
| A word the waters of the world have washed | H |
| Leaving it stark and without smell | X |
| A world that rattles well in emptiness Good by | A |
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