To A Snail Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFAGHID| If compression is the first grace of style | A |
| you have it Contractility is a virtue | B |
| as modesty is a virtue | B |
| It is not the acquisition of any one thing | C |
| that is able to adorn | D |
| or the incidental quality that occurs | E |
| as a concomitant of something well said | F |
| that we value in style | A |
| but the principle that is hid | G |
| in the absence of feet a method of conclusions | H |
| a knowledge of principles | I |
| in the curious phenomenon of your occipital horn | D |
Marianne Moore
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