I Knew A Woman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEE FGFGHHH IIIIIIJ KLMLIII| I knew a woman lovely in her bones | A |
| When small birds sighed she would sigh back at them | B |
| Ah when she moved she moved more ways than one | C |
| The shapes a bright container can contain | D |
| Of her choice virtues only gods should speak | E |
| Or English poets who grew up on Greek | E |
| I'd have them sing in a chorus cheek to cheek | E |
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| How well her wishes went She stroked my chin | F |
| She taught me Turn and Counter turn and Stand | G |
| She taught me Touch that undulant white skin | F |
| I nibbled meekly from her proferred hand | G |
| She was the sickle I poor I the rake | H |
| Coming behind her for her pretty sake | H |
| But what prodigious mowing we did make | H |
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| Love likes a gander and adores a goose | I |
| Her full lips pursed the errant notes to sieze | I |
| She played it quick she played it light and loose | I |
| My eyes they dazzled at her flowing knees | I |
| Her several parts could keep a pure repose | I |
| Or one hip quiver with a mobile nose | I |
| She moved in circles and those circles moved | J |
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| Let seed be grass and grass turn into hay | K |
| I'm martyr to a motion not my own | L |
| What's freedom for To know eternity | M |
| I swear she cast a shadow white as stone | L |
| But who would count eternity in days | I |
| These old bones live to learn her wanton ways | I |
| I measure time by how a body sways | I |
Theodore Roethke
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