A Roadside Near Ithaca Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGDAHIJDBBKBLLB DMDBNLDD| Here we picked wild strawberries | A |
| though in my memory we're neither here | B |
| nor missing Or I'd scuff out | C |
| by myself at dusk proud | D |
| to be lonely Now everything's | E |
| in bloom along the road at once | F |
| tansy mustard sow thistle | G |
| fescue burdock soapwort | D |
| the mailbox high day lilies | A |
| splurges of chicory with thin | H |
| ragged sky blue flowers | I |
| Or they're one blue the sky | J |
| can be and always not | D |
| varium et mutabile semper | B |
| restless forever In memory | B |
| though memory eats its banks | K |
| like any river you can carry | B |
| by constant revision | L |
| some loved thing a stalk of mullein | L |
| shaped like a what's the word for | B |
| a tower of terraced bells that's it | D |
| a carillon A carillon ringing | M |
| its mute changes of pollen into a past | D |
| we must be about to enter | B |
| the road's so stained by the yellow | N |
| light same yellow as the tiny | L |
| mullein flowers we shared | D |
| when we were imminent | D |
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