The Clearing That Is The Trees Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEEF DGCH IJDKLDD MNDDODP QRSQTDDUDVQDWDXYDZDQ A2B2NC2DDThey know they are going to the filth of numbers and laws | A |
to the games anyone can play and the work without fruit | B |
Lorca | C |
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I want to go walking in troubled marshes | D |
where cold gray coves leave off the mind | E |
and the scent of rushes twist the wind | E |
as fall covers dungeons of angry sparrows | F |
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I want to go quickly to troubled marshes | D |
hear the squeak of brackish waters | G |
over crocks of sponge bubbles crabbing | C |
their surface | H |
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I desire stands of dead brush | I |
to wave in grave solemnity | J |
whimpering little houses | D |
off forest glades to flicker | K |
out lamps with | L |
large dogs poised on verandahs | D |
like stone gargoyles | D |
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I want to handle anguish as if | M |
it were an interesting bauble | N |
plucked from the shallows | D |
a curious snail with ritual markings | D |
or a mauve shellfish | O |
caught in swift eddies | D |
as the tide goes out | P |
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I want to examine canker introspection | Q |
as a peevish child might | R |
faint tracings on an old stone | S |
lodged in the most forgotten | Q |
corner of a graveyard | T |
sample its wonders | D |
fingering the many indentations | D |
with more than slight awe | U |
or hear the crashing of waves | D |
far off from the physical restraint | V |
of the marsh or this forgotten | Q |
burial plot so near an angry sea | D |
Then awaken as if from a dream | W |
rub troubled memories from my eyes | D |
but never the brain | X |
for on winter nights just before | Y |
retiring as the wind stirs packets | D |
of snow or the moon is chased | Z |
by skeletal hounds along Gretal trees | D |
there will come the realization | Q |
another day is thru | A2 |
with another night to pilot away | B2 |
fresh brush rubble | N |
before emerging at night's end | C2 |
from the clearing that is | D |
the trees | D |
Paul Cameron Brown
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