Nevertheless Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB CDD EFF GHH IJJ KII GLL III IKK GKJ MNN| you've seen a strawberry | A |
| that's had a struggle yet | B |
| was where the fragments met | B |
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| a hedgehog or a star | C |
| fish for the multitude | D |
| of seeds What better food | D |
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| than apple seeds the fruit | E |
| within the fruit locked in | F |
| like counter curved twin | F |
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| hazelnuts Frost that kills | G |
| the little rubber plant | H |
| leaves of kok sagyyz stalks can't | H |
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| harm the roots they still grow | I |
| in frozen ground Once where | J |
| there was a prickley pear | J |
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| leaf clinging to a barbed wire | K |
| a root shot down to grow | I |
| in earth two feet below | I |
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| as carrots from mandrakes | G |
| or a ram's horn root some | L |
| times Victory won't come | L |
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| to me unless I go | I |
| to it a grape tendril | I |
| ties a knot in knots till | I |
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| knotted thirty times so | I |
| the bound twig that's under | K |
| gone and over gone can't stir | K |
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| The weak overcomes its | G |
| menace the strong over | K |
| comes itself What is there | J |
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| like fortitude What sap | M |
| went through that little thread | N |
| to make the cherry red | N |
Marianne Moore
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