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 A2CMB2T| I | 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 |
| - | |
| 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 | - |
| - | |
| 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 | - |
| - | |
| 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 | - |
| - | |
| 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 | - |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| When the blackbird flew out of sight | V |
| It marked the edge | W |
| Of one of many circles | T |
| - | |
| 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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