A Considerable Speck Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEBEFFGHGHIIGJK IJKLMJLMJ NNOO| Microscopic | A |
| - | |
| A speck that would have been beneath my sight | B |
| On any but a paper sheet so white | B |
| Set off across what I had written there | C |
| And I had idly poised my pen in air | C |
| To stop it with a period of ink | D |
| When something strange about it made me think | D |
| This was no dust speck by my breathing blown | E |
| But unmistakably a living mite | B |
| With inclinations it could call its own | E |
| It paused as with suspicion of my pen | F |
| And then came racing wildly on again | F |
| To where my manuscript was not yet dry | G |
| Then paused again and either drank or smelt | H |
| With loathing for again it turned to fly | G |
| Plainly with an intelligence I dealt | H |
| It seemed too tiny to have room for feet | I |
| Yet must have had a set of them complete | I |
| To express how much it didn't want to die | G |
| It ran with terror and with cunning crept | J |
| It faltered I could see it hesitate | K |
| Then in the middle of the open sheet | I |
| Cower down in desperation to accept | J |
| Whatever I accorded it of fate | K |
| I have none of the tenderer than thou | L |
| Collectivistic regimenting love | M |
| With which the modern world is being swept | J |
| But this poor microscopic item now | L |
| Since it was nothing I knew evil of | M |
| I let it lie there till I hope it slept | J |
| - | |
| I have a mind myself and recognize | N |
| Mind when I meet with it in any guise | N |
| No one can know how glad I am to find | O |
| On any sheet the least display of mind | O |
Robert Frost
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