The Wild Iris Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD AEF GFH AIHJK DLDMN OPDAt the end of my suffering | A |
there was a door | B |
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Hear me out that which you call death | C |
I remember | D |
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Overhead noises branches of the pine shifting | A |
Then nothing The weak sun | E |
flickered over the dry surface | F |
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It is terrible to survive | G |
as consciousness | F |
buried in the dark earth | H |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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