Amber Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC D EF GCH EA A IJK L MA A| Hover | A |
| the imagined center our tongues | B |
| grew long to please it licking | C |
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| the walls a chamber built of scent | D |
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| a moment followed by a lesser moment | E |
| a hunger to return It couldn't last Resin | F |
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| flowed glacially from wounds in the bark | G |
| pinned us in our entering | C |
| as the orchids opened wider First | H |
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| liquid so we swam until we couldn't | E |
| Then it felt like sleep the taste of nectar | A |
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| still inside us Sometimes a flower | A |
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| became submerged with us A million years | I |
| went by A hundred Swarm of hoverflies | J |
| cockroach assassin bug all | K |
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| trapped suspended | L |
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| in that moment of fullness | M |
| a Pompeii the mother | A |
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| covering her child's head forever | A |
Nick Flynn
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