Eyes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGBHIGJBGGKLMB NO| the only parts of the body the same | A |
| size at birth as they'll always be | B |
| 'That's why all babies are beautiful ' | C |
| Thurber used to say as he grew | D |
| blind not dark he'd go on | E |
| to explain but floating in a pale | F |
| light always a kind of candlelit | G |
| murk from a sourceless light | G |
| He needed dark to see | B |
| for a while he drew on black | H |
| paper with white pastel chalk | I |
| but it grew worse Light bored | G |
| into his eyes but where did it go | J |
| Into a sea of phosphenes | B |
| along the wet fuse of some dead | G |
| nerve it hid everywhere and couldn't | G |
| be found I've used up | K |
| three guesses all of them | L |
| right It's like scuba diving going down | M |
| into the black cone tip that dives | B |
| farther than I can though I dive | N |
| closer all the time | O |
William Matthews
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