Walking West Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJCK LMENAnyone 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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