Castile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCD ECAFG EHA CC CI JK LCM HNB JC CHBB OP BQC H| Orange blossoms blowing over Castile | A |
| children begging for coins | B |
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| I met my love under an orange tree | C |
| or was it an acacia tree | C |
| or was he not my love | D |
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| I read this then I dreamed this | E |
| can waking take back what happened to me | C |
| Bells of San Miguel | A |
| ringing in the distance | F |
| his hair in the shadows blond white | G |
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| I dreamed this | E |
| does that mean it didn't happen | H |
| Does it have to happen in the world to be real | A |
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| I dreamed everything the story | C |
| became my story | C |
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| he lay beside me | C |
| my hand grazed the skin of his shoulder | I |
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| Mid day then early evening | J |
| in the distance the sound of a train | K |
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| But it was not the world | L |
| in the world a thing happens finally absolutely | C |
| the mind cannot reverse it | M |
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| Castile nuns walking in pairs through the dark garden | H |
| Outside the walls of the Holy Angels | N |
| children begging for coins | B |
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| When I woke I was crying | J |
| has that no reality | C |
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| I met my love under an orange tree | C |
| I have forgotten | H |
| only the facts not the inference' | B |
| there were children somewhere crying begging for coins | B |
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| I dreamed everything I gave myself | O |
| completely and for all time | P |
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| And the train returned us | B |
| first to Madrid | Q |
| then to the Basque country | C |
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| Anonymous submission | H |
Louise Gluck
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