Traveling Through The Dark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH CFIJ KCDC FL| Traveling through the dark I found a deer | A |
| dead on the edge of the Wilson River road | B |
| It is usually best to roll them into the canyon | C |
| that road is narrow to swerve might make more dead | D |
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| By glow of the tail light I stumbled back of the car | E |
| and stood by the heap a doe a recent killing | F |
| she had stiffened already almost cold | G |
| I dragged her off she was large in the belly | H |
| - | |
| My fingers touching her side brought me the reason | C |
| her side was warm her fawn lay there waiting | F |
| alive still never to be born | I |
| Beside that mountain road I hesitated | J |
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| The car aimed ahead its lowered parking lights | K |
| under the hood purred the steady engine | C |
| I stood in the glare of the warm exhaust turning red | D |
| around our group I could hear the wilderness listen | C |
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| I thought hard for us all my only swerving | F |
| then pushed her over the edge into the river | L |
William Stafford
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