Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKI HLMM NHON HPPQ RSTB UVWX| It was a Maine lobster town | A |
| each morning boatloads of hands | B |
| pushed off for granite | C |
| quarries on the islands | D |
| - | |
| and left dozens of bleak | E |
| white frame houses stuck | F |
| like oyster shells | G |
| on a hill of rock | H |
| - | |
| and below us the sea lapped | I |
| the raw little match stick | J |
| mazes of a weir | K |
| where the fish for bait were trapped | I |
| - | |
| Remember We sat on a slab of rock | H |
| From this distance in time | L |
| it seems the color | M |
| of iris rotting and turning purpler | M |
| - | |
| but it was only | N |
| the usual gray rock | H |
| turning the usual green | O |
| when drenched by the sea | N |
| - | |
| The sea drenched the rock | H |
| at our feet all day | P |
| and kept tearing away | P |
| flake after flake | Q |
| - | |
| One night you dreamed | R |
| you were a mermaid clinging to a wharf pile | S |
| and trying to pull | T |
| off the barnacles with your hands | B |
| - | |
| We wished our two souls | U |
| might return like gulls | V |
| to the rock In the end | W |
| the water was too cold for us | X |
Robert Lowell
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