The Shape Of The Fire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCD EFG HIJK CLM NOP QRS TTUVWXQQV CYCZPA2YB2YCYC2D2 SSYE2 YYYY YF2YF2 G2UC YCYH2I2J2K2L2 M2YYYN2O2 P2YO2YYQ2YR2 VNYJR2YR2YR2YYR2S2R2 O2O2CCA | |
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What s this A dish for fat lips | B |
Who says A nameless stranger | C |
Is he a bird or a tree Not everyone can tell | D |
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Water recedes to the crying of spiders | E |
An old scow bumps over black rocks | F |
A cracked pod calls | G |
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Mother me out of here What more will the bones allow | H |
Will the sea give the wind suck A toad folds into a stone | I |
These flowers are all fangs Comfort me fury | J |
Wake me witch we ll do the dance of rotten sticks | K |
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Shale loosens Marl reaches into the field Small birds pass over water | C |
Spirit come near This is only the edge of whiteness | L |
I can t laugh at a procession of dogs | M |
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In the hour of ripeness the tree is barren | N |
The she bear mopes under the hill | O |
Mother mother stir from your cave of sorrow | P |
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A low mouth laps water Weeds weeds how I love you | Q |
The arbor is cooler Farewell farewell fond worm | R |
The warm comes without sound | S |
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Where s the eye | T |
The eye s in the sty | T |
The ear s not here | U |
Beneath the hair | V |
When I took off my clothes | W |
To find a nose | X |
There was only one shoe | Q |
For the waltz of To | Q |
The pinch of Where | V |
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Time for the flat headed man I recognize that listener | C |
Him with the platitudes and rubber doughnuts | Y |
Melting at the knees a varicose horror | C |
Hello hello My nerves knew you dear boy | Z |
Have you come to unhinge my shadow | P |
Last night I slept in the pits of a tongue | A2 |
The silver fish ran in and out of my special bindings | Y |
I grew tired of the ritual of names and the assistant keeper of the | B2 |
mollusks | Y |
Up over a viaduct I came to the snakes and sticks of another winter | C |
A two legged dog hunting a new horizon of howls | Y |
The wind sharpened itself on a rock | C2 |
A voice sang | D2 |
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Pleasure on ground | S |
Has no sound | S |
Easily maddens | Y |
The uneasy man | E2 |
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Who careless slips | Y |
In coiling ooze | Y |
Is trapped to the lips | Y |
Leaves more than shoes | Y |
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Must pull off clothes | Y |
To jerk like a frog | F2 |
On belly and nose | Y |
From the sucking bog | F2 |
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My meat eats me Who waits at the gate | G2 |
Mother of quartz your words writhe into my ear | U |
Renew the light lewd whisper | C |
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The wasp waits | Y |
The edge cannot eat the center | C |
The grape glistens | Y |
The path tells little to the serpent | H2 |
An eye comes out of the wave | I2 |
The journey from flesh is longest | J2 |
A rose sways least | K2 |
The redeemer comes a dark way | L2 |
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Morning fair follow me further back | M2 |
Into that minnowy world of weeds and ditches | Y |
When the herons floated high over the white houses | Y |
And the little crabs slipped into silvery craters | Y |
When the sun for me glinted the sides of a sand grain | N2 |
And my intent stretched over the buds at their first trembling | O2 |
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That air and shine and the flicker s loud summer call | P2 |
The bearded boards in the stream and the all of apples | Y |
The glad hen on the hill and the trellis humming | O2 |
Death was not I lived in a simple drowse | Y |
Hands and hair moved through a dream of wakening blossoms | Y |
Rain sweetened the cave and the dove still called | Q2 |
The flowers leaned on themselves the flowers in hollows | Y |
And love love sang toward | R2 |
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To have the whole air | V |
The light the full sun | N |
Coming down on the flowerheads | Y |
The tendrils turning slowly | J |
A slow snail lifting liquescent | R2 |
To be by the rose | Y |
Rising slowly out of its bed | R2 |
Still as a child in its first loneliness | Y |
To see cyclamen veins become clearer in early sunlight | R2 |
And mist lifting out of the brown cat tails | Y |
To stare into the after light the glitter left on the lake s surface | Y |
When the sun has fallen behind a wooded island | R2 |
To follow the drops sliding from a lifted oar | S2 |
Held up while the rower breathes and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward | R2 |
To know that light falls and fills often without our knowing | O2 |
As an opaque vase fills to the brim from a quick pouring | O2 |
Fills and trembles at the edge yet does not flow over | C |
Still holding and feeding the stem of the contained flower | C |
Theodore Roethke
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