The Planet On The Table Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEC DFD GHE CICAriel was glad he had written his poems | A |
They were of a remembered time | B |
Or of something seen that he liked | C |
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Other makings of the sun | D |
Were waste and welter | E |
And the ripe shrub writhed | C |
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His self and the sun were one | D |
And his poems although makings of his self | F |
Were no less makings of the sun | D |
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It was not important that they survive | G |
What mattered was that they should bear | H |
Some lineament or character | E |
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Some affluence if only half perceived | C |
In the poverty of their words | I |
Of the planet of which they were part | C |
Wallace Stevens
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