When I Was A Much Younger Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFFGHI JKLMNE OF P PFE FEFJNFHNQFFFRSFTSUF UVWNNSS| When I was a much younger man | A |
| my spiritual homeland was a scrub mile of bush with thicket | B |
| leaves the size of your palms | C |
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| Saucer size holes of white air enveloped the edge of trees | D |
| and the sky was large an upturned pitcher | E |
| placed upon its ears | F |
| edge wise cicadas June Beetles let out long throbs | F |
| and the people rounded out lives between the farmhouse the barn | G |
| This ennobled them and they were famously resilient and in turn | H |
| redolent with firmness the gladness of life | I |
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| There was a Drive House a pig pen sheds a chicken coop and by | J |
| night stars became the earlier evening swallows gulping the space Left in | K |
| the train of the moon There was no one Empress of the Night anymore | L |
| than a Prince or Kings towered across the landscape | M |
| Stillness and the largeness of things predominated and a hill cascading | N |
| between the fields pond held both largess and chaos in nature | E |
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| A fence line divided the dynasties then Regencies across an orchard | O |
| what seemed to many an enchanted bridge to the woods | F |
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| It was here a boy made his stand | P |
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| The language of rock hillside lakes nettle stands like the back of my hand | P |
| to fill a calendar wall their musical sounds are brave arias in waves | F |
| with sonatas first in strength then pleasure | E |
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| This Frontenac Axis as fortress strong hold its booty lichens moss | F |
| legends such as Meyer's Cave John Meyers murdered for silver | E |
| Mazinaw Rock the Mugwumps | F |
| more water in this Davy Jones locker than all Araby | J |
| this wonder merriment all strung in a violin string | N |
| as webs of beads these lakes | F |
| silver cistern | H |
| lovely listening | N |
| this necklace of forest wreath | Q |
| placid leaf fingering wide eyed watershed rich in Massasauga serpents | F |
| like daggers in that tarn karst topography lime stone carapace | F |
| Painted Turtle hemorrhaging as orange leaves in Sumac troves | F |
| copses as sky counts lakes like the back of my hand ache with the wish | R |
| I could swim them all wallow in their own restless energy | S |
| Snapping Turtle Point a pail of water and a beast three bucket sizes | F |
| with a yellow underbelly like an alligator claws black raven mouth | T |
| lunging his neck as some gladiator's sword primitive in his ferocity | S |
| Nigh near lacerated my hand no wish here to leave digits there as new | U |
| Finger Lakes | F |
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| Names masculine to the touch and their roundness Mississageon | U |
| Buckshot could pepper a listener or blur in seconds turning effete | V |
| Shabomeeka Sharbot or learn likeness and leisure in the form of the | W |
| lute Kashwakemak sound brittle Rogue's Hollow Marlbank | N |
| Lime Lake the Claire River disappearing into a swamp muskeg | N |
| where one maps out one's personal Mythology | S |
| Napanee is and as Anthology | S |
Paul Cameron Brown
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