A Grave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFAGDHAIIJKLMFNJ OPQRSTUVKHTWXUT| Man looking into the sea | A |
| taking the view from those who have as much right to it as | B |
| you have to it yourself | C |
| it is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing | D |
| but you cannot stand in the middle of this | E |
| the sea has nothing to give but a well excavated grave | F |
| The firs stand in a procession each with an emerald turkey | A |
| foot at the top | G |
| reserved as their contours saying nothing | D |
| repression however is not the most obvious characteristic of | H |
| the sea | A |
| the sea is a collector quick to return a rapacious look | I |
| There are others besides you who have worn that look | I |
| whose expression is no longer a protest the fish no longer | J |
| investigate them | K |
| for their bones have not lasted | L |
| men lower nets unconscious of the fact that they are | M |
| desecrating a grave | F |
| and row quickly away the blades of the oars | N |
| moving together like the feet of water spiders as if there were | J |
| no such thing as death | O |
| The wrinkles progress among themselves in a phalanx | P |
| beautiful under networks of foam | Q |
| and fade breathlessly while the sea rustles in and out of the | R |
| seaweed | S |
| the birds swim through the air at top speed emitting cat calls | T |
| as heretofore | U |
| the tortoise shell scourges about the feet of the cliffs in motion | V |
| beneath them | K |
| and the ocean under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of | H |
| bell bouys | T |
| advances as usual looking as if it were not that ocean in which | W |
| dropped things are bound to sink | X |
| in which if they turn and twist it is neither with volition nor | U |
| consciousness | T |
Marianne Moore
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