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