A Letter To Ruth Stone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFG HIJKELM NOPQRSTUV WW TW| Now that you have caught sight | A |
| of the other side of darkness | B |
| the invisible side | C |
| so that you can tell | D |
| it is rising | E |
| first thing in the morning | E |
| and know it is there | F |
| all through the day | G |
| - | |
| another sky | H |
| clear and unseen | I |
| has begun to loom | J |
| in your words | K |
| and another light is growing | E |
| out of their shadows | L |
| you can hear it | M |
| - | |
| now you will be able | N |
| to envisage beyond | O |
| any words of mine | P |
| the color of these leaves | Q |
| that you never saw | R |
| awake above the still valley | S |
| in the small hours | T |
| under the moon | U |
| three nights past the full | V |
| - | |
| you know there was never | W |
| a name for that color | W |
| - | |
| From 'The Shadow Of Sirius' | T |
| Publisher Copper Canyon Press September | W |
William Stanley Merwin
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