Six Significant Landscapes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHHHIJ AEKLEMNOPQ ANEERAEESTG NUVFWXYEEN NEEEENNE NEEEZEEEEUE| I | A |
| An old man sits | B |
| In the shadow of a pine tree | C |
| In China | D |
| He sees larkspur | E |
| Blue and white | F |
| At the edge of the shadow | G |
| Move in the wind | H |
| His beard moves in the wind | H |
| The pine tree moves in the wind | H |
| Thus water flows | I |
| Over weeds | J |
| - | |
| II | A |
| The night is of the colour | E |
| Of a woman's arm | K |
| Night the female | L |
| Obscure | E |
| Fragrant and supple | M |
| Conceals herself | N |
| A pool shines | O |
| Like a bracelet | P |
| Shaken in a dance | Q |
| - | |
| III | A |
| I measure myself | N |
| Against a tall tree | E |
| I find that I am much taller | E |
| For I reach right up to the sun | R |
| With my eye | A |
| And I reach to the shore of the sea | E |
| With my ear | E |
| Nevertheless I dislike | S |
| The way ants crawl | T |
| In and out of my shadow | G |
| - | |
| IV | N |
| When my dream was near the moon | U |
| The white folds of its gown | V |
| Filled with yellow light | F |
| The soles of its feet | W |
| Grew red | X |
| Its hair filled | Y |
| With certain blue crystallizations | E |
| From stars | E |
| Not far off | N |
| - | |
| V | N |
| Not all the knives of the lamp posts | E |
| Nor the chisels of the long streets | E |
| Nor the mallets of the domes | E |
| And high towers | E |
| Can carve | N |
| What one star can carve | N |
| Shining through the grape leaves | E |
| - | |
| VI | N |
| Rationalists wearing square hats | E |
| Think in square rooms | E |
| Looking at the floor | E |
| Looking at the ceiling | Z |
| They confine themselves | E |
| To right angled triangles | E |
| If they tried rhomboids | E |
| Cones waving lines ellipses | E |
| As for example the ellipse of the half moon | U |
| Rationalists would wear sombreros | E |
Wallace Stevens
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