Bi-focal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL MNKO PQRS| Sometimes up out of this land | A |
| a legend begins to move | B |
| Is it a coming near | C |
| of something under love | D |
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| Love is of the earth only | E |
| the surface a map of roads | F |
| leading wherever go miles | G |
| or little bushes nod | H |
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| Not so the legend under | I |
| fixed inexorable | J |
| deep as the darkest mine | K |
| the thick rocks won't tell | L |
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| As fire burns the leaf | M |
| and out of the green appears | N |
| the vein in the center line | K |
| and the legend veins under there | O |
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| So the world happens twice | P |
| once what we see it as | Q |
| second it legends itself | R |
| deep the way it is | S |
William Stafford
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