Encounter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL MNOP NQRI STPU MVWX| Those who have touched it or been touched by it | A |
| Or brushed by something that the vine has brushed | B |
| Or burning it have stood where the sly smoke | C |
| Has touched them Know the meaning of its name | D |
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| The leaf is smooth Its green is innocence | E |
| A clean unblemished leaf glossy when young | F |
| A leaf the unobserving might overlook | G |
| And the observing find too prosperous | H |
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| I've seen a vine of it so old and crooked | I |
| It held a hen coop in its grip the stalk | J |
| Thick as a man's wrist There it had grown | K |
| Half out of sight permitted undisturbed | L |
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| Strangers to it who on a autumn road | M |
| Have found a vine that swept a tree like fire | N |
| And gathered it barehanded and brought it home | O |
| For color seldom gathered it again | P |
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| Some are immune and some have thought they were | N |
| And some ever so cautiously with gloves | Q |
| Finding that it grew to near their homes | R |
| Have tried to root it out and have succeeded | I |
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| Except that something from the vine fastened | S |
| Upon their flesh and burned and in a year | T |
| Or two the vine itself was there again | P |
| Glossy and green and smooth and innocent | U |
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| My neighbor's cow grazing beside the road | M |
| Munches with joy and almost with a smile | V |
| The salad of its leaves transmuting them | W |
| Into sweet milk that I will drink tomorrow | X |
Robert Francis
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