The Fish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC DDE FFGHI EJKKL MMNNO PQRGS JTUVH WXYYZ| wade | A |
| through black jade | A |
| Of the crow blue mussel shells one keeps | B |
| adjusting the ash heaps | B |
| opening and shutting itself like | C |
| - | |
| an | - |
| injured fan | - |
| The barnacles which encrust the side | D |
| of the wave cannot hide | D |
| there for the submerged shafts of the | E |
| - | |
| sun | F |
| split like spun | F |
| glass move themselves with spotlight swiftness | G |
| into the crevices | H |
| in and out illuminating | I |
| - | |
| the | E |
| turquoise sea | J |
| of bodies The water drives a wedge | K |
| of iron throught the iron edge | K |
| of the cliff whereupon the stars | L |
| - | |
| pink | M |
| rice grains ink | M |
| bespattered jelly fish crabs like green | N |
| lilies and submarine | N |
| toadstools slide each on the other | O |
| - | |
| All | P |
| external | Q |
| marks of abuse are present on this | R |
| defiant edifice | G |
| all the physical features of | S |
| - | |
| ac | J |
| cident lack | T |
| of cornice dynamite grooves burns and | U |
| hatchet strokes these things stand | V |
| out on it the chasm side is | H |
| - | |
| dead | W |
| Repeated | X |
| evidence ahs proved that it can live | Y |
| on what can not revive | Y |
| its youth The sea grows old in it | Z |
Marianne Moore
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