Six Significant Landscapes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHHHIJ AEKLEMNOPQ ANEERAEESTG NUVFWXYEEN NEEEENNE NEEEZEEEEUEI | 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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