Looking Across The Fields And Watching The Birds Fly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHG IJK LMN OPQ RST UGV WXY ZA2S B2C2D2 E2F2G2 H2I2J2 K2K2U L2M2N2| Among the more irritating minor ideas | A |
| Of Mr Homburg during his visits home | B |
| To Concord at the edge of things was this | C |
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| To think away the grass the trees the clouds | D |
| Not to transform them into other things | E |
| Is only what the sun does every day | F |
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| Until we say to ourselves that there may be | G |
| A pensive nature a mechanical | H |
| And slightly detestable operandum free | G |
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| From man's ghost larger and yet a little like | I |
| Without his literature and without his gods | J |
| No doubt we live beyond ourselves in air | K |
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| In an element that does not do for us | L |
| so well that which we do for ourselves too big | M |
| A thing not planned for imagery or belief | N |
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| Not one of the masculine myths we used to make | O |
| A transparency through which the swallow weaves | P |
| Without any form or any sense of form | Q |
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| What we know in what we see what we feel in what | R |
| We hear what we are beyond mystic disputation | S |
| In the tumult of integrations out of the sky | T |
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| And what we think a breathing like the wind | U |
| A moving part of a motion a discovery | G |
| Part of a discovery a change part of a change | V |
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| A sharing of color and being part of it | W |
| The afternoon is visibly a source | X |
| Too wide too irised to be more than calm | Y |
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| Too much like thinking to be less than thought | Z |
| Obscurest parent obscurest patriarch | A2 |
| A daily majesty of meditation | S |
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| That comes and goes in silences of its own | B2 |
| We think then as the sun shines or does not | C2 |
| We think as wind skitters on a pond in a field | D2 |
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| Or we put mantles on our words because | E2 |
| The same wind rising and rising makes a sound | F2 |
| Like the last muting of winter as it ends | G2 |
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| A new scholar replacing an older one reflects | H2 |
| A moment on this fantasia He seeks | I2 |
| For a human that can be accounted for | J2 |
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| The spirit comes from the body of the world | K2 |
| Or so Mr Homburg thought the body of a world | K2 |
| Whose blunt laws make an affectation of mind | U |
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| The mannerism of nature caught in a glass | L2 |
| And there become a spirit's mannerism | M2 |
| A glass aswarm with things going as far as they can | N2 |
Wallace Stevens
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