The Planet On The Table Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEC DFD GHE CIC| Ariel 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 |
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