Queen Anne's Lace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJIKLDMNOIID| Her body is not so white as | A |
| anemone petals nor so smooth nor | B |
| so remote a thing It is a field | C |
| of the wild carrot taking | D |
| thefield by force the grass | E |
| does not raise above it | F |
| Here is no question of whiteness | G |
| white as can be with a purple mole | H |
| at the center of each flower | I |
| Each flower is a hand's span | J |
| of her whiteness Wherever | I |
| his hand has lain there is | K |
| a tiny purple blossom under his touch | L |
| to which the fibres of her being | D |
| stem one by one each to its end | M |
| until the whole field is a | N |
| white desire empty a single stem | O |
| a cluster flower by flower | I |
| a pious wish to whiteness gone over | I |
| or nothing | D |
William Carlos Williams
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