Staying At Ed's Place Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GBA DHIJ KLM NOPL QNN| I like being in your apartment and not disturbing anything | A |
| As in the woods I wouldn't want to move a tree | B |
| or change the play of sun and shadow on the ground | C |
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| The yellow kitchen stool belongs right there | D |
| against white plaster I haven't used your purple towel | E |
| because I like the accidental cleft of shade you left in it | F |
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| At your small six sided table covered with mysterious | G |
| dents in the wood like a dartboard I drink my coffee | B |
| from your brown mug I look into the clearing | A |
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| of your high front room where sunlight slopes through bare | D |
| window squares Your Afghanistan hammock | H |
| a man sized cocoon | I |
| slung from wall to wall your narrow desk and typewriter | J |
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| are the only furniture Each morning your light from the east | K |
| douses me where with folded legs I sit in your meadow | L |
| a casual spread of brilliant carpets Like a cat or dog | M |
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| I take a roll then stretched out flat | N |
| in the center of color and pattern I listen | O |
| to the remote growl of trucks over cobbles on | P |
| Bethune Street below | L |
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| When I open my eyes I discover the peaceful blank | Q |
| of the ceiling Its old paint layered surface is moonwhite | N |
| and trackless like the Sea of Tranquillity | N |
May Swenson
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