Retreating Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC ADEFG HIJHK LKMN OPIQD| When I made you I loved you | A |
| Now I pity you | A |
| - | |
| I gave you all you needed | B |
| bed of earth blanket of blue air | C |
| - | |
| As I get further away from you | A |
| I see you more clearly | D |
| Your souls should have been immense by now | E |
| not what they are | F |
| small talking things | G |
| - | |
| I gave you every gift | H |
| blue of the spring morning | I |
| time you didn't know how to use | J |
| you wanted more the one gift | H |
| reserved for another creation | K |
| - | |
| Whatever you hoped | L |
| you will not find yourselves in the garden | K |
| among the growing plants | M |
| Your lives are not circular like theirs | N |
| - | |
| your lives are the bird's flight | O |
| which begins and ends in stillness | P |
| which begins and ends in form echoing | I |
| this arc from the white birch | Q |
| to the apple tree | D |
Louise Gluck
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