Two Figures In Dense Violet Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHI JKL MNO PBQI had as lief be embraced by the portier of the hotel | A |
As to get no more from the moonlight | B |
Than your moist hand | C |
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Be the voice of the night and Florida in my ear | D |
Use dasky words and dusky images | E |
Darken your speech | F |
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Speak even as if I did not hear you speaking | G |
But spoke for you perfectly in my thoughts | H |
Conceiving words | I |
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As the night conceives the sea sound in silence | J |
And out of the droning sibilants makes | K |
A serenade | L |
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Say puerile that the buzzards crouch on the ridge pole | M |
and sleep with one eye watching the stars fall | N |
Beyond Key West | O |
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Say that the palms are clear in the total blue | P |
Are clear and are obscure that it is night | B |
That the moon shines | Q |
Wallace Stevens
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