Celestial Music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACD EFGHIJK LMNODFA PQRPSTUV WNXYZA2UAB2PC2D2| I have a friend who still believes in heaven | A |
| Not a stupid person yet with all she knows she literally talks to God | B |
| She thinks someone listens in heaven | A |
| On earth she's unusually competent | C |
| Brave too able to face unpleasantness | D |
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| We found a caterpillar dying in the dirt greedy ants crawling over it | E |
| I'm always moved by disaster always eager to oppose vitality | F |
| But timid also quick to shut my eyes | G |
| Whereas my friend was able to watch to let events play out | H |
| According to nature For my sake she intervened | I |
| Brushing a few ants off the torn thing and set it down | J |
| Across the road | K |
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| My friend says I shut my eyes to God that nothing else explains | L |
| My aversion to reality She says I'm like the child who | M |
| Buries her head in the pillow | N |
| So as not to see the child who tells herself | O |
| That light causes sadness | D |
| My friend is like the mother Patient urging me | F |
| To wake up an adult like herself a courageous person | A |
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| In my dreams my friend reproaches me We're walking | P |
| On the same road except it's winter now | Q |
| She's telling me that when you love the world you hear celestial music | R |
| Look up she says When I look up nothing | P |
| Only clouds snow a white business in the trees | S |
| Like brides leaping to a great height | T |
| Then I'm afraid for her I see her | U |
| Caught in a net deliberately cast over the earth | V |
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| In reality we sit by the side of the road watching the sun set | W |
| From time to time the silence pierced by a birdcall | N |
| It's this moment we're trying to explain the fact | X |
| That we're at ease with death with solitude | Y |
| My friend draws a circle in the dirt inside the caterpillar doesn't move | Z |
| She's always trying to make something whole something beautiful an image | A2 |
| Capable of life apart from her | U |
| We're very quiet It's peaceful sitting here not speaking The composition | A |
| Fixed the road turning suddenly dark the air | B2 |
| Going cool here and there the rocks shining and glittering | P |
| It's this stillness we both love | C2 |
| The love of form is a love of endings | D2 |
Louise Gluck
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