The Machine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHDEDCIGJKL E| The little biplane that has the river meadow for landing field | A |
| And carries passengers brief rides | B |
| Buzzed overhead on the tender blue above the orange of sundown | C |
| Below it five troubled night herons | D |
| Turned short over the shore from its course four east one northward | E |
| Beyond them | F |
| Swam the new moon in amber | G |
| I don't know why but lately the forms of things appear to me with time | H |
| One of their visible dimensions | D |
| The thread brightness of the bent moon appeared enormous unnumbered | E |
| Ages of years the night herons | D |
| Their natural size they have croaked over the shore in the hush at sundown | C |
| Much longer than human language | I |
| Has fumbled with the air but the plane having no past but a certain future | G |
| Insect in size as in form | J |
| Was also accepted all these forms of power placed without preference | K |
| In the grave arrangement of the evening | L |
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| Submitted by Holt | E |
Robinson Jeffers
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