A Codex Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD DE FG HI JK LF BM DN DO| It was a late book given up for lost | A |
| again and again with its sentences | B |
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| bare at last and phrases that seemed transparent | C |
| revealing what had been there the whole way | D |
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| the poems of daylight after the day | D |
| lying open at last on the table | E |
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| without explanation or emphasis | F |
| like sounds left when the syllables have gone | G |
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| clarifying the whole grammar of waiting | H |
| not removing one question from the air | I |
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| or closing the story although single lights | J |
| were beginning by then above and below | K |
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| while the long twilight deepened its silence | L |
| from sapphire through opal to Athena s iris | F |
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| until shadow covered the gray pages | B |
| the comet words the book of presences | M |
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| after which there was little left to say | D |
| but then it was night and everything was known | N |
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| From 'The Shadow Of Sirius' | D |
| Publisher Copper Canyon Press September | O |
William Stanley Merwin
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