The Wild Iris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD AEF GFH AIHJK DLDMN OPD| At the end of my suffering | A |
| there was a door | B |
| - | |
| Hear me out that which you call death | C |
| I remember | D |
| - | |
| Overhead noises branches of the pine shifting | A |
| Then nothing The weak sun | E |
| flickered over the dry surface | F |
| - | |
| It is terrible to survive | G |
| as consciousness | F |
| buried in the dark earth | H |
| - | |
| Then it was over that which you fear being | A |
| a soul and unable | I |
| to speak ending abruptly the stiff earth | H |
| bending a little And what I took to be | J |
| birds darting in low shrubs | K |
| - | |
| You who do not remember | D |
| passage from the other world | L |
| I tell you I could speak again whatever | D |
| returns from oblivion returns | M |
| to find a voice | N |
| - | |
| from the center of my life came | O |
| a great fountain deep blue | P |
| shadows on azure seawater | D |
Louise Gluck
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