Romance Moderne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI JCKKLM NOPQRSTU VWXTDYZA2VB2V VC2D2E2F2G2GVVH2I2 VJ2J2GJ2J2EJ2CK2L2M2 N2O2J2M2GO2 J2B2GP2Q2J2J2J2J2 R2TJ2J2S2 T2U2J2TJ2 VJ2J2J2P2J2EN2F2S2F2 F2 J2GV2VGJ2W2E2TCJ2| Tracks of rain and light linger in | A |
| the spongy greens of a nature whose | B |
| flickering mountain bulging nearer | C |
| ebbing back into the sun | D |
| hollowing itself away to hold a lake | E |
| or brown stream rising and falling at the roadside turning about | F |
| churning itself white drawing | G |
| green in over it plunging glassy funnels | H |
| fall | I |
| - | |
| And the other world | J |
| the windshield a blunt barrier | C |
| Talk to me Sh they would hear us | K |
| the backs of their heads facing us | K |
| The stream continues its motion of | L |
| a hound running over rough ground | M |
| - | |
| Trees vanish reappear vanish | N |
| detached dance of gnomes as a talk | O |
| dodging remarks glows and fades | P |
| The unseen power of words | Q |
| And now that a few of the moves | R |
| are clear the first desire is | S |
| to fling oneself out at the side into | T |
| the other dance to other music | U |
| - | |
| Peer Gynt Rip Van Winkle Diana | V |
| If I were young I would try a new alignment | W |
| alight nimbly from the car Good bye | X |
| Childhood companions linked two and two | T |
| criss cross four three two one | D |
| Back into self tentacles withdrawn | Y |
| Feel about in warm self flesh | Z |
| Since childhood since childhood | A2 |
| Childhood is a toad in the garden a | V |
| happy toad All toads are happy | B2 |
| and belong in gardens A toad to Diana | V |
| - | |
| Lean forward Punch the steerman | V |
| behind the ear Twirl the wheel | C2 |
| Over the edge Screams Crash | D2 |
| The end I sit above my head | E2 |
| a little removed or | F2 |
| a thin wash of rain on the roadway | G2 |
| I am never afraid when he is driving | G |
| interposes new direction | V |
| rides us sidewise unforseen | V |
| into the ditch All threads cut | H2 |
| Death Black The end The very end | I2 |
| - | |
| I would sit separate weighing a | V |
| small red handful the dirt of these parts | J2 |
| sliding mists sheeting the alders | J2 |
| against the touch of fingers creeping | G |
| to mine All stuff of the blind emotions | J2 |
| But stirred the eye seizes | J2 |
| for the first time The eye awake | E |
| anything a dirt bank with green stars | J2 |
| of scrawny weed flattened upon it under | C |
| a weight of air For the first time | K2 |
| or a yawning depth Big | L2 |
| Swim around in it through it | M2 |
| all directions and find | N2 |
| vitreous seawater stuff | O2 |
| God how I love you or as I say | J2 |
| a plunge into the ditch The End I sit | M2 |
| examining my red handful Balancing | G |
| this in and out agh | O2 |
| - | |
| Love you It's | J2 |
| a fire in the blood willy nilly | B2 |
| It's the sun coming up in the morning | G |
| Ha but it's the grey moon too already up | P2 |
| in the morning You are slow | Q2 |
| Men are not friends where it concerns | J2 |
| a woman Fighters Playfellows | J2 |
| White round thighs Youth Sighs | J2 |
| It's the fillip of novelty It's | J2 |
| - | |
| Mountains Elephants humping along | R2 |
| against the sky indifferent to | T |
| light withdrawing its tattered shreds | J2 |
| worn out with embraces It's | J2 |
| the fillip of novelty It's a fire in the blood | S2 |
| - | |
| Oh get a flannel shirt white flannel | T2 |
| or pongee You'd look so well | U2 |
| I married you because I liked your nose | J2 |
| I wanted you I wanted you | T |
| in spite of all they'd say | J2 |
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| Rain and light mountain and rain | V |
| rain and river Will you love me always | J2 |
| A car overturned and two crushed bodies | J2 |
| under it Always Always | J2 |
| And the white moon already up | P2 |
| White Clean All the colors | J2 |
| A good head backed by the eye awake | E |
| backed by the emotions blind | N2 |
| River and mountain light and rain or | F2 |
| rain rock light trees divided | S2 |
| rain light counter rocks trees or | F2 |
| trees counter rain light rocks or | F2 |
| - | |
| Myriads of counter processions | J2 |
| crossing and recrossing regaining | G |
| the advantage buying here selling there | V2 |
| You are sold cheap everywhere in town | V |
| lingering touching fingers withdrawing | G |
| gathering forces into blares hummocks | J2 |
| peaks and rivers rivers meeting rock | W2 |
| I wish that you were lying there dead | E2 |
| and I sitting here beside you | T |
| It's the grey moon over and over | C |
| It's the clay of these parts | J2 |
William Carlos Williams
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