The Visitant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGHBC IJKLM NOPIQP PR PS COT

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A cloud moved close The bulk of the wind shiftedB
A tree swayed over waterC
A voice saidD
Stay Stay by the slip ooze StayE
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Dearest tree I said may I rest hereF
A ripple made a soft replyG
I waited alert as a dogH
The leech clinging to a stone waitedB
And the crab the quiet breatherC
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Slow slow as a fish she cameI
Slow as a fish coming forwardJ
Swaying in a long waveK
Her skirts not touching a leafL
Her white arms reaching towards meM
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She came without soundN
Without brushing the wet stonesO
In the soft dark of early eveningP
She cameI
The wind in her hairQ
The moon beginningP
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I woke in the first of morningP
Staring at a tree I felt the pulse of a stoneR
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Where s she now I kept sayingP
Where s she now the mountain s downy girlS
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But the bright day had no answerC
A wind stirred in a web of applewormsO
The tree the close willow swayedT

Theodore Roethke



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