The Wild Iris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AB CD AEF GFH AIHJK DLDMN OPD

At the end of my sufferingA
there was a doorB
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Hear me out that which you call deathC
I rememberD
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Overhead noises branches of the pine shiftingA
Then nothing The weak sunE
flickered over the dry surfaceF
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It is terrible to surviveG
as consciousnessF
buried in the dark earthH
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Then it was over that which you fear beingA
a soul and unableI
to speak ending abruptly the stiff earthH
bending a little And what I took to beJ
birds darting in low shrubsK
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You who do not rememberD
passage from the other worldL
I tell you I could speak again whateverD
returns from oblivion returnsM
to find a voiceN
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from the center of my life cameO
a great fountain deep blueP
shadows on azure seawaterD

Louise Gluck



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