Queen-anne's Lace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJIKLMDNOPII DHer body is not so white as | A |
anemony petals nor so smooth nor | B |
so remote a thing It is a field | C |
of the wild carrot taking | D |
the field 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 blemish Each part | L |
is a blossom under his touch | M |
to which the fibres of her being | D |
stem one by one each to its end | N |
until the whole field is a | O |
white desire empty a single stem | P |
a cluster flower by flower | I |
a pious wish to whiteness gone over | I |
or nothing | D |
William Carlos Williams
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