Landing On The Moon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKL MNNOPE LQRSDT UVWXYZ| When in the mask of night there shone that cut | A |
| we were riddled A probe reached down | B |
| and stroked some nerve in us | C |
| as if the glint from a wizard's eye of silver | D |
| slanted out of the mask of the unknown | E |
| pit of riddles the scratch marked sky | F |
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| When albino bowl on cloth of jet | G |
| it spilled its virile rays | H |
| our eyes enlarged our blood reared with the waves | I |
| We craved its secret but unreachable | J |
| it held away from us chilly and frail | K |
| Distance kept it magnate Enigma made it white | L |
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| When we learned to read it with our rod | M |
| reflected light revealed | N |
| a lead mirror a bruised shield | N |
| seamed with scars and shadow soiled | O |
| A half faced sycophant its glitter borrowed | P |
| rode around our throne | E |
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| On the moon there shines earth light | L |
| as moonlight shines upon th earth | Q |
| If on its obsidian we set our weightless foot | R |
| and sniff no wind and lick no rain | S |
| and feel no gauze between us and the Fire | D |
| will we trot its grassless skull sick for the homelike shade | T |
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| Naked to the earth beam we shall be | U |
| who have arrived to map an apparition | V |
| who walk upon the forehead of a myth | W |
| Can flesh rub with symbol If our ball | X |
| be iron and not light our earliest wish | Y |
| eclipses Dare we land upon a dream | Z |
May Swenson
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