Spring Stains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE DFGH IBJKL MNOPNQRSTUV AWXH| In a tissue thin monotone of blue grey buds | A |
| crowded erect with desire against the sky | B |
| tense blue grey twigs | C |
| slenderly anchoring them down drawing | D |
| them in | E |
| - | |
| two blue grey birds chasing | D |
| a third struggle in circles angles | F |
| swift convergings to a point that bursts | G |
| instantly | H |
| - | |
| Vibrant bowing limbs | I |
| pull downward sucking the sky | B |
| that bulges from behind plastering itself | J |
| against them in packed rifts rock blue | K |
| and dirty orange | L |
| - | |
| But | M |
| Hold hard rigid jointed trees | N |
| the blinding and red edged sun blur | O |
| creeping energy concentrated | P |
| counterforce welds sky buds trees | N |
| rivets them in one puckering hold | Q |
| Sticks through Pulls the whole | R |
| counter pulling mass upward to the right | S |
| locks even the opaque not yet defined | T |
| ground in a terrific drag that is | U |
| loosening the very tap roots | V |
| - | |
| On a tissue thin monotone of blue grey buds | A |
| two blue grey birds chasing a third | W |
| at full cry Now they are | X |
| flung outward and up disappearing suddenly | H |
William Carlos Williams
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