A Walk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH CIDACJKL MNOPCQFC RASPDTUV WXYZA2PA2B2| February on the narrow beach o | A |
| A M I set out south Cape Cod Light | B |
| on its crumbling cliff above me turns | C |
| its wand of light so steadily | D |
| it might be tolling a half life | E |
| it might be the second hand | F |
| of a schoolroom clock | G |
| a kind of blind radar | H |
| - | |
| These bluffs deposited by glaaciers | C |
| are giving themselves away | I |
| to the beaches down the line three | D |
| feet of coastline a year I follow | A |
| them south at my own slow pace | C |
| Ahead my grandfather died | J |
| in a boat and my father | K |
| found him and here I come | L |
| - | |
| If I cleave to the base of the I berm | M |
| the offshore wind swirls grit | N |
| just over my head and the backwash | O |
| rakes it away If I keep going | P |
| south toward my grandfather s house | C |
| in Chatham and beyond | Q |
| the longshore current grinds the sand | F |
| finer the farther I go It spreads | C |
| - | |
| it wider and the beaches sift | R |
| inland as far as they can go | A |
| before beachgrass laces them down | S |
| for now It gets to be spring | P |
| I keep walking it gets to be | D |
| summer Families loll | T |
| Now the waves are small they keep | U |
| their swash marks close to home | V |
| - | |
| A little inland from the spurge | W |
| and sea rockets my tan sons kick | X |
| a soccer ball north against | Y |
| grains that may once have been | Z |
| compacted to sandstone then | A2 |
| broken back to grains bumbling | P |
| and driven and free again | A2 |
| shrinking along the broadening edge | B2 |
William Matthews
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