To A Snail Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFAGHIDIf 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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