The Bear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKKLLMMNOOOOPP| The bear puts both arms around the tree above her | A |
| And draws it down as if it were a lover | A |
| And its chokecherries lips to kiss good by | B |
| Then lets it snap back upright in the sky | B |
| Her next step rocks a boulder on the wall | C |
| She's making her cross country in the fall | C |
| Her great weight creaks the barbed wire in its staples | D |
| As she flings over and off down through the maples | D |
| Leaving on one wire tooth a lock of hair | E |
| Such is the uncaged progress of the bear | E |
| The world has room to make a bear feel free | F |
| The universe seems cramped to you and me | F |
| Man acts more like the poor bear in a cage | G |
| That all day fights a nervous inward rage | G |
| His mood rejecting all his mind suggests | H |
| He paces back and forth and never rests | H |
| The me nail click and shuffle of his feet | I |
| The telescope at one end of his beat | I |
| And at the other end the microscope | J |
| Two instruments of nearly equal hope | J |
| And in conjunction giving quite a spread | K |
| Or if he rests from scientific tread | K |
| 'Tis only to sit back and sway his head | K |
| Through ninety odd degrees of arc it seems | L |
| Between two metaphysical extremes | L |
| He sits back on his fundamental butt | M |
| With lifted snout and eyes if any shut | M |
| He almost looks religious but he's not | N |
| And back and forth he sways from cheek to cheek | O |
| At one extreme agreeing with one Greek | O |
| At the other agreeing with another Greek | O |
| Which may be thought but only so to speak | O |
| A baggy figure equally pathetic | P |
| When sedentary and when peripatetic | P |
Robert Frost
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