Two Figures In Dense Violet Light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHI JKL MNO PBQ| I 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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