Death Of A Young Son By Drowning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHI JIK ILI MND OPQ RDS TSUDV| He who navigated with success | A |
| the dangerous river of his own birth | B |
| once more set forth | C |
| - | |
| on a voyage of discovery | D |
| into the land I floated on | E |
| but could not touch to claim | F |
| - | |
| His feet slid on the bank | G |
| the currents took him | H |
| he swirled with ice and trees in the swollen water | I |
| - | |
| and plunged into distant regions | J |
| his head a bathysphere | I |
| through his eyes' thin glass bubbles | K |
| - | |
| he looked out reckless adventurer | I |
| on a landscape stranger than Uranus | L |
| we have all been to and some remember | I |
| - | |
| There was an accident the air locked | M |
| he was hung in the river like a heart | N |
| They retrieved the swamped body | D |
| - | |
| cairn of my plans and future charts | O |
| with poles and hooks | P |
| from among the nudging logs | Q |
| - | |
| It was spring the sun kept shining the new grass | R |
| leapt to solidity | D |
| my hands glistened with details | S |
| - | |
| After the long trip I was tired of waves | T |
| My foot hit rock The dreamed sails | S |
| collapsed ragged | U |
| I planted him in this country | D |
| like a flag | V |
Margaret Atwood
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