The Paper Nautilus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDE FFGDFHI JKLFKMN OPIQPRS TUVWUDX| For authorities whose hopes | A |
| are shaped by mercenaries | B |
| Writers entrapped by | C |
| teatime fame and by | C |
| commuters' comforts Not for these | B |
| the paper nautilus | D |
| constructs her thin glass shell | E |
| - | |
| Giving her perishable | F |
| souvenir of hope a dull | F |
| white outside and smooth | G |
| edged inner surface | D |
| glossy as the sea the watchful | F |
| maker of it guards it | H |
| day and night she scarcely | I |
| - | |
| eats until the eggs are hatched | J |
| Buried eight fold in her eight | K |
| arms for she is in | L |
| a sense a devil | F |
| fish her glass ram'shorn cradled freight | K |
| is hid but is not crushed | M |
| as Hercules bitten | N |
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| by a crab loyal to the hydra | O |
| was hindered to succeed | P |
| the intensively | I |
| watched eggs coming from | Q |
| the shell free it when they are freed | P |
| leaving its wasp nest flaws | R |
| of white on white and close | S |
| - | |
| laid Ionic chiton folds | T |
| like the lines in the mane of | U |
| a Parthenon horse | V |
| round which the arms had | W |
| wound themselves as if they knew love | U |
| is the only fortress | D |
| strong enough to trust to | X |
Marianne Moore
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