The Straitening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCD EFGH IJHFKELM LM FFNOP HQRSTU LF VFFNFWT X FIFYZZMA2 PM B2B2EC2 D2D2EHR HVR FKIME2FR FF2G2H2FF I2E2PJ2BK2L2PFFE2V FR FM2FKPPF2I E2E2FG2N2O2PPSU SF E2P2BN2B2 B2Q2Q2CN2XA2 A2W FR2BFMFEHHHHS2 N2S2 T2FT2S2RQT2X FBB BHR HBJENU2 HR ZOF OQFBRH2XD FI| A | |
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| Driven into the | B |
| terrain | C |
| with the unmistakable track | D |
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| grass written asunder The stones white | E |
| with the shadows of grassblades | F |
| Do not read any more look | G |
| Do not look any more go | H |
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| Go your hour | I |
| has no sisters you are | J |
| are at home A wheel slow | H |
| rolls out of itself the spokes | F |
| climb | K |
| climb on a blackish field the night | E |
| needs no stars nowhere | L |
| does anyone ask after you | M |
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| Nowhere | L |
| does anyone ask after you | M |
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| The place where they lay it has | F |
| a name it has | F |
| none They did not lie there Something | N |
| lay between them They | O |
| did not see through it | P |
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| Did not see no | H |
| spoke of | Q |
| words None | R |
| awoke | S |
| sleep | T |
| came over them | U |
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| Came came Nowhere | L |
| anyone asks | F |
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| It is I I | V |
| I lay between you I was | F |
| open was | F |
| audible ticked at you your breathing | N |
| obeyed it is | F |
| I still but then | W |
| you are asleep | T |
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| It is I still | X |
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| years | F |
| years years a finger | I |
| feels down and up feels | F |
| around | Y |
| seams palpable here | Z |
| it is split wide open here | Z |
| it grew together again who | M |
| covered it up | A2 |
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| Covered it | P |
| up who | M |
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| Came came | B2 |
| Came a word came | B2 |
| came through the night | E |
| wanted to shine wanted to shine | C2 |
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| Ash | D2 |
| Ash ash | D2 |
| Night | E |
| Night and night Go | H |
| to the eye the moist one | R |
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| Go | H |
| to the eye | V |
| the moist one | R |
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| Gales | F |
| Gales from the beginning of time | K |
| whirl of particles the other | I |
| you | M |
| know it though we | E2 |
| read it in the book was | F |
| opinion | R |
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| Was was | F |
| opinion How | F2 |
| did we touch | G2 |
| each other each other with | H2 |
| these | F |
| hands | F |
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| There was written too that | I2 |
| Where We | E2 |
| put a silence over it | P |
| stilled with poison great | J2 |
| a | B |
| green | K2 |
| silence a sepal an | L2 |
| idea of vegetation attached to it | P |
| green yes | F |
| attached yes | F |
| under a crafty | E2 |
| sky | V |
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| Of yes | F |
| vegetation | R |
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| Yes | F |
| Gales whirl of part | M2 |
| icles there was | F |
| time left time | K |
| to try it out with the stone it | P |
| was hospitable it | P |
| did not cut in How | F2 |
| lucky we were | I |
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| Grainy | E2 |
| grainy and stringy Stalky | E2 |
| dense | F |
| grapy and radiant kidneyish | G2 |
| flattish and | N2 |
| lumpy loose tang | O2 |
| led he it | P |
| did not cut in it | P |
| spoke | S |
| willingly spoke to dry eyes before closing them | U |
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| Spoke spoke | S |
| Was was | F |
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| We | E2 |
| would not let go stood | P2 |
| in the midst a | B |
| porous edifice and | N2 |
| it came | B2 |
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| Came at us came | B2 |
| through us patched | Q2 |
| invisibly patched | Q2 |
| away at the last membrane | C |
| and | N2 |
| the world a millicrystal | X |
| shot up shot up | A2 |
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| Shot up shot up | A2 |
| Then | W |
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| Nights demixed Circles | F |
| green or blue scarlet | R2 |
| squares the | B |
| world puts its inmost reserves | F |
| into the game with the new | M |
| hours Circles | F |
| red or black bright | E |
| squares no | H |
| flight shadow | H |
| no | H |
| measuring table no | H |
| smoke soul ascends or joins in | S2 |
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| Ascends and | N2 |
| joins in | S2 |
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| At owl's flight near | T2 |
| the petrified scabs | F |
| near | T2 |
| our fled hands in | S2 |
| the latest rejection | R |
| above | Q |
| the rifle range near | T2 |
| the buried wall | X |
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| visible once | F |
| more the | B |
| grooves the | B |
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| choirs at that time the | B |
| psalms Ho ho | H |
| sannah | R |
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| So | H |
| there are temples yet A | B |
| star | J |
| probably still has light | E |
| Nothing | N |
| nothing is lost | U2 |
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| Ho | H |
| sannah | R |
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| At owl's flight here | Z |
| the conversations day grey | O |
| of the water level traces | F |
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| day grey | O |
| of | Q |
| the water level traces | F |
| Driven into the | B |
| terrain | R |
| with | H2 |
| the unmistakable | X |
| track | D |
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| Grass | F |
| grass written asunder | I |
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