The Past Is The Present Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI| If external action is effete | A |
| and rhyme is outmoded | B |
| I shall revert to you | C |
| Habakkuk as when in a Bible class | D |
| the teacher was speaking of unrhymed verse | E |
| He said and I think I repeat his exact words | F |
| Hebrew poetry is prose | G |
| with a sort of heightened consciousness Ecstasy affords | H |
| the occasion and expediency determines the form | I |
Marianne Moore
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