Ode For Ted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC CCCEEC CCCFFC CCCEEC| From under the crunch of my man's boot | A |
| green oat sprouts jut | B |
| he names a lapwing starts rabbits in a rout | C |
| legging it most nimble | D |
| to sprigged hedge of bramble | D |
| stalks red fox shrewd stoat | C |
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| Loam humps he says moles shunt | C |
| up from delved worm haunt | C |
| blue fur moles have hefting chalk hulled flint | C |
| he with rock splits open | E |
| knobbed quartz flayed colors ripen | E |
| rich brown sudden in sunlight | C |
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| For his least look scant acres yield | C |
| each finger furrowed field | C |
| heaves forth stalk leaf fruit nubbed emerald | C |
| bright grain sprung so rarely | F |
| he hauls to his will early | F |
| at his hand's staunch hest birds build | C |
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| Ringdoves roost well within his wood | C |
| shirr songs to suit which mood | C |
| he saunters in how but most glad | C |
| could be this adam's woman | E |
| when all earth his words do summon | E |
| leaps to laud such man's blood | C |
Sylvia Plath
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