Nine Nectarines And Other Porcelain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGHII JKLMKLNNOGG GPQRSTUFGVW XYMZA2 B2C2GLC2GGGGC2C2| Arranged by two's as peaches are | A |
| at intervals that all may live | B |
| eight and a single one on twigs that | C |
| grew the year before they look like | D |
| a derivative | E |
| although not uncommonly | F |
| the opposite is seen | G |
| nine peaches on a nectarine | G |
| Fuzzless through slender crescent leaves | H |
| of green or blue or | I |
| both in the Chinese style the four | I |
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| pairs' half moon leaf mosaic turns | J |
| out to the sun the sprinkled blush | K |
| of puce American Beauty pink | L |
| applied to bees wax gray by the | M |
| uninquiring brush | K |
| of mercantile bookbinding | L |
| Like the peach Yu the red | N |
| cheeked peach which cannot aid the dead | N |
| but eaten in time prevents death | O |
| 'the Italian | G |
| peach nut Persian plum Ispahan | G |
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| secluded wall grown nectarine | G |
| as wild spontaneous fruit was | P |
| found in China first But was it wild | Q |
| Prudent de Candolle would not say | R |
| One perceives no flaws | S |
| in this emblematic group | T |
| of nine with leaf window | U |
| unquilted by curculio | F |
| which someone once depicted on | G |
| this much mended plate | V |
| or in the also accurate | W |
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| unantlered moose or Iceland horse | X |
| or ass asleep against the old | Y |
| thick low leaning nectarine that is the | M |
| color of the shrub tree's brownish | Z |
| flower | A2 |
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| A Chinese understands | B2 |
| the spirit of the wilderness | C2 |
| and the nectarine loving kylin | G |
| of pony appearance the long | L |
| tailed or the tailless | C2 |
| small cinnamon brown common | G |
| camel haired unicorn | G |
| with antelope feet and no horn | G |
| here enameled on porcelain | G |
| It was a Chinese | C2 |
| Who imagined this masterpiece | C2 |
Marianne Moore
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