Lavender Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EF GHI FJI KLA A MNAO FPQ RA AAKSH AATA HHA UVGTW AW XYZW WHW| A mind is a ray of light running to the sea | A |
| an arch of wood upon which birds rest | B |
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| Minds roam the ocean's crest sit as antlers upon a beach | C |
| watch eddies of water trap themselves in the sand | D |
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| And minds are in anything but a state of rest they violate | E |
| physics make mockery of other bodies not in ready motion | F |
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| I have seen a mind enclosed above fresh air and sunshine | G |
| frolicking on its own strength the elasticity of its thought lassoing | H |
| all the stars assembled | I |
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| Golden points of light caught in this sand with an oval sun | F |
| marching blue legions across the sky bring more harmony than | J |
| all the stars assembled | I |
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| Admiral Fakir Harem They are all here as is batik geisha | K |
| sarong teak and gingham I have seen them in quiet pools near | L |
| the atolls | A |
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| Rapture is a word to be eaten with persimmon and pears | A |
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| The closed wood Copse and fragrant bush White mare alone in | M |
| a green studded pasture aback groves and groves of pleasant | N |
| trees Bright insects making a curry of the forest floor with leaves | A |
| as trinkets bartered to the wind | O |
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| And the endless sky overturned like a bowl across the horizon | F |
| Water and air the two chief elements in a brisk compound with | P |
| earth and fire | Q |
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| The land itself nursing a presence by the sea as a lizard might | R |
| devour a fly on a bough above a tree | A |
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| Then there are the granaries of this empire the washed up logs | A |
| darting into footprints from the inlets A white sand making its | A |
| presence felt like a tireless magician Green strands of the | K |
| cucumber bush big with melon a mother with expectant child | S |
| hushed and sitting by a clearing | H |
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| The waters of the stream please me more than the sea | A |
| coconut groves with hand me down messages for the ages | A |
| Strands among weeds wine bottles as ferrymen ready for | T |
| circumnavigation around islands crisscrossing bucolic charts | A |
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| And everywhere reefs and coral and sugarbush fish darting | H |
| between the sieve of land breaking bread with sea exchanging | H |
| colours from many coloured coats | A |
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| Kangaroo koala tepee bayou hula lei | U |
| Sights which gallop against the senses act as brigands to mature | V |
| reason Faraway in the mountain fastness of the mind alpine | G |
| meadows look out upon further marvels exchange cocoa for | T |
| quinine adjust the mind as a stirrup before a long night ride | W |
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| The shaman with a hammock in his catamaran dolefully accepts | A |
| the waves as the skin must a tatoo | W |
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| The lovely collision of sound with twilight on fragrant sea grape | X |
| the hush of storm clouds preparing to administer their own | Y |
| bromide of fire before the appearance of a band aid patch of | Z |
| lightning streaks against the divide | W |
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| Perhaps lavender is a language here the juxtaposition of mind | W |
| with energy coming to a halt from a brisk canter then proceeding | H |
| to nibble a currant from my hand | W |
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