Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCD A EFG A HI JJDJ KBLCK MNDMOMP IGDQR STRUM T VWT T TV XYIZWT T CC T A2CMB2TI | A |
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Among twenty snowy mountains | B |
The only moving thing | C |
Was the eye of the black bird | D |
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II | A |
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I was of three minds | E |
Like a tree | F |
In which there are three blackbirds | G |
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III | A |
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The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds | H |
It was a small part of the pantomime | I |
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IV | - |
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A man and a woman | J |
Are one | J |
A man and a woman and a blackbird | D |
Are one | J |
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V | - |
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I do not know which to prefer | K |
The beauty of inflections | B |
Or the beauty of innuendoes | L |
The blackbird whistling | C |
Or just after | K |
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VI | - |
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Icicles filled the long window | M |
With barbaric glass | N |
The shadow of the blackbird | D |
Crossed it to and fro | M |
The mood | O |
Traced in the shadow | M |
An indecipherable cause | P |
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VII | - |
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O thin men of Haddam | I |
Why do you imagine golden birds | G |
Do you not see how the blackbird | D |
Walks around the feet | Q |
Of the women about you | R |
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VIII | - |
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I know noble accents | S |
And lucid inescapable rhythms | T |
But I know too | R |
That the blackbird is involved | U |
In what I know | M |
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IX | T |
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When the blackbird flew out of sight | V |
It marked the edge | W |
Of one of many circles | T |
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X | T |
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At the sight of blackbirds | T |
Flying in a green light | V |
Even the bawds of euphony | - |
Would cry out sharply | - |
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XI | - |
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He rode over Connecticut | X |
In a glass coach | Y |
Once a fear pierced him | I |
In that he mistook | Z |
The shadow of his equipage | W |
For blackbirds | T |
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XII | T |
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The river is moving | C |
The blackbird must be flying | C |
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XIII | T |
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It was evening all afternoon | A2 |
It was snowing | C |
And it was going to snow | M |
The blackbird sat | B2 |
In the cedar limbs | T |
Wallace Stevens
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