Ode To Meaning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB BC DAEFGHEE IJKLBB JMNBOPJ EJQAIJ RAI SRTUVWB LTOXYABL BEAVZA2 JIJB2BJ AL AB VEBPB2JBLA| Dire one and desired one | A |
| Savior sentencer | B |
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| In an old allegory you would carry | B |
| A chained alphabet of tokens | C |
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| Ankh Badge Cross | D |
| Dragon | A |
| Engraved figure guarding a hallowed intaglio | E |
| Jasper kinema of legendary Mind | F |
| Naked omphalos pierced | G |
| By quills of rhyme or sense torah like unborn | H |
| Vein of will xenophile | E |
| Yearning out of Zero | E |
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| Untrusting I court you Wavering | I |
| I seek your face I read | J |
| That Crusoe's knife | K |
| Reeked of you that to defile you | L |
| The soldier makes the rabbi spit on the torah | B |
| quot I'll drown my book quot says Shakespeare | B |
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| Drowned walker revenant | J |
| After my mother fell on her head she became | M |
| More than ever your sworn enemy She spoke | N |
| Sometimes like a poet or critic of forty years later | B |
| Or she spoke of the world as Thersites spoke of the heroes | O |
| quot I think they have swallowed one another I | P |
| Would laugh at that miracle quot | J |
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| You also in the laughter warrior angel | E |
| Your helmet the zodiac rocket plumed | J |
| Your spear the beggar's finger pointing to the mouth | Q |
| Your heel planted on the serpent Formulation | A |
| Your face a vapor the wreath of cigarette smoke crowning | I |
| Bogart as he winces through it | J |
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| You not in the words not even | R |
| Between the words but a torsion | A |
| A cleavage a stirring | I |
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| You stirring even in the arctic ice | S |
| Even at the dark ocean floor even | R |
| In the cellular flesh of a stone | T |
| Gas Gossamer My poker friends | U |
| Question your presence | V |
| In a poem by me passing the magazine | W |
| One to another | B |
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| Not the stone and not the words you | L |
| Like a veil over Arthur's headstone | T |
| The passage from Proverbs he chose | O |
| While he was too ill to teach | X |
| And still well enough to read I was | Y |
| Beside the master craftsman | A |
| Delighting him day after day ever | B |
| At play in his presence you | L |
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| A soothing veil of distraction playing over | B |
| Dying Arthur playing in the hospital | E |
| Thumbing the Bible fuzzy from medication | A |
| Ever courting your presence | V |
| And you the prognosis | Z |
| You in the cough | A2 |
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| Gesturer when is your spur your cloud | J |
| You in the airport rituals of greeting and parting | I |
| Indicter who is your claimant | J |
| Bell at the gate Spiderweb iron bridge | B2 |
| Cloak video aroma rue what is your | B |
| Elected silence where was your seed | J |
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| What is Imagination | A |
| But your lost child born to give birth to you | L |
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| Dire one Desired one | A |
| Savior sentencer | B |
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| Absence | V |
| Or presence ever at play | E |
| Let those scorn you who never | B |
| Starved in your dearth If I | P |
| Dare to disparage | B2 |
| Your harp of shadows I taste | J |
| Wormwood and motor oil I pour | B |
| Ashes on my head You are the wound You | L |
| Be the medicine | A |
Robert Pinsky
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