Atavism Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJK LMNONPNQHRNSTNC| A | |
| Sometimes in the open you look up | B |
| where birds go by or just nothing | C |
| and wait A dim feeling comes | D |
| you were like this once there was air | E |
| and quiet it was by a lake or | F |
| maybe a river you were alert | G |
| as an otter and were suddenly born | H |
| like the evening star into wide | I |
| still worlds like this one you have found | J |
| again for a moment in the open | K |
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| Something is being told in the woods aisles of | L |
| shadow lead away a branch waves | M |
| a pencil of sunlight slowly travels its | N |
| path A withheld presence almost | O |
| speaks but then retreats rustles | N |
| a patch of brush You can feel | P |
| the centuries ripple generations | N |
| of wandering discovering being lost | Q |
| and found eating dying being born | H |
| A walk through the forest strokes your fur | R |
| the fur you no longer have And your gaze | N |
| down a forest aisle is a strange long | S |
| plunge dark eyes looking for home | T |
| For delicious minutes you can feel your whiskers | N |
| wider than your mind away out over everything | C |
William Stafford
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