Parable Of The Dove Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDE FGHIJKLM NOPQRSTNP UVWHH HXGS| A dove lived in a village | A |
| When it opened its mouth | B |
| sweetness came out sound | C |
| like a silver light around | C |
| the cherry bough But | D |
| the dove wasn't satisfied | E |
| - | |
| It saw the villagers | F |
| gathered to listen under | G |
| the blossoming tree | H |
| It didn't think I | I |
| am higher that they are | J |
| It wanted to wealk among them | K |
| to experience the violence of human feeling | L |
| in part for its song's sake | M |
| - | |
| So it became human | N |
| It found passion it found violence | O |
| first conflated then | P |
| as separate emotions | Q |
| and these were not | R |
| contained by music Thus | S |
| its song changed | T |
| the sweet notes of its longing to become human | N |
| soured and flattened Then | P |
| - | |
| the world drew back the mutant | U |
| fell from love | V |
| as from the cherry branch | W |
| it fell stained with the bloody | H |
| fruit of the tree | H |
| - | |
| So it is true after all not merely | H |
| a rule of art | X |
| change your form and you change your nature | G |
| And time does this to us | S |
Louise Gluck
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