Poetry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDE FAGHIJ KLCMN CGGOOP QRBNRG| I too dislike it there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle | A |
| Reading it however with a perfect contempt for it one discovers that there is in | B |
| it after all a place for the genuine | C |
| Hands that can grasp eyes | D |
| that can dilate hair that can rise | D |
| if it must these things are important not because a | E |
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| high sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are | F |
| useful when they become so derivative as to become unintelligible | A |
| the same thing may be said for all of us that we | G |
| do not admire what | H |
| we cannot understand the bat | I |
| holding on upside down or in quest of something to | J |
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| eat elephants pushing a wild horse taking a roll a tireless wolf under | K |
| a tree the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that feels a flea the base | L |
| ball fan the statistician | C |
| nor is it valid | M |
| to discriminate against business documents and | N |
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| school books all these phenomena are important One must make a distinction | C |
| however when dragged into prominence by half poets the result is not poetry | G |
| nor till the poets among us can be | G |
| literalists of | O |
| the imagination above | O |
| insolence and triviality and can present | P |
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| for inspection imaginary gardens with real toads in them shall we have | Q |
| it In the meantime if you demand on one hand | R |
| the raw material of poetry in | B |
| all its rawness and | N |
| that which is on the other hand | R |
| genuine then you are interested in poetry | G |
Marianne Moore
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