Walking West Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJCK LMEN| Anyone with quiet pace who | A |
| walks a gray road in the West | B |
| may hear a badger underground where | C |
| in deep flint another time is | D |
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| Caught by flint and held forever | E |
| the quiet pace of God stopped still | F |
| Anyone who listens walks on | G |
| time that dogs him single file | H |
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| To mountains that are far from people | I |
| the face of the land gone gray like flint | J |
| Badgers dig their little lives there | C |
| quiet paced the land lies gaunt | K |
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| The railroad dies by a yellow depot | L |
| town falls away toward a muddy creek | M |
| Badger gray the sod goes under | E |
| a river of wind a hawk on a stick | N |
William Stafford
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