Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEC FGB HIB JAK LMN| At the earliest ending of winter | A |
| In March a scrawny cry from outside | B |
| Seemed like a sound in his mind | C |
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| He knew that he heard it | D |
| A bird's cry at daylight or before | E |
| In the early March wind | C |
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| The sun was rising at six | F |
| No longer a battered panache above snow | G |
| It would have been outside | B |
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| It was not from the vast ventriloquism | H |
| Of sleep's faded papier mache | I |
| The sun was coming from the outside | B |
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| That scrawny cry It was | J |
| A chorister whose c preceded the choir | A |
| It was part of the colossal sun | K |
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| Surrounded by its choral rings | L |
| Still far away It was like | M |
| A new knowledge of reality | N |
Wallace Stevens
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