Nostos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGAHIJKLGMNOPQR NNSH| There was an apple tree in the yard | A |
| this would have been | B |
| forty years ago behind | C |
| only meadows Drifts | D |
| of crocus in the damp grass | E |
| I stood at that window | F |
| late April Spring | G |
| flowers in the neighbor's yard | A |
| How many times really did the tree | H |
| flower on my birthday | I |
| the exact day not | J |
| before not after Substitution | K |
| of the immutable | L |
| for the shifting the evolving | G |
| Substitution of the image | M |
| for relentless earth What | N |
| do I know of this place | O |
| the role of the tree for decades | P |
| taken by a bonsai voices | Q |
| rising from the tennis courts | R |
| Fields Smell of the tall grass new cut | N |
| As one expects of a lyric poet | N |
| We look at the world once in childhood | S |
| The rest is memory | H |
Louise Gluck
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