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

IA
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Among twenty snowy mountainsB
The only moving thingC
Was the eye of the black birdD
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IIA
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I was of three mindsE
Like a treeF
In which there are three blackbirdsG
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IIIA
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The blackbird whirled in the autumn windsH
It was a small part of the pantomimeI
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IV-
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A man and a womanJ
Are oneJ
A man and a woman and a blackbirdD
Are oneJ
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V-
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I do not know which to preferK
The beauty of inflectionsB
Or the beauty of innuendoesL
The blackbird whistlingC
Or just afterK
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VI-
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Icicles filled the long windowM
With barbaric glassN
The shadow of the blackbirdD
Crossed it to and froM
The moodO
Traced in the shadowM
An indecipherable causeP
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VII-
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O thin men of HaddamI
Why do you imagine golden birdsG
Do you not see how the blackbirdD
Walks around the feetQ
Of the women about youR
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VIII-
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I know noble accentsS
And lucid inescapable rhythmsT
But I know tooR
That the blackbird is involvedU
In what I knowM
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IXT
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When the blackbird flew out of sightV
It marked the edgeW
Of one of many circlesT
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XT
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At the sight of blackbirdsT
Flying in a green lightV
Even the bawds of euphony-
Would cry out sharply-
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XI-
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He rode over ConnecticutX
In a glass coachY
Once a fear pierced himI
In that he mistookZ
The shadow of his equipageW
For blackbirdsT
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XIIT
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The river is movingC
The blackbird must be flyingC
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XIIIT
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It was evening all afternoonA2
It was snowingC
And it was going to snowM
The blackbird satB2
In the cedar limbsT

Wallace Stevens



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