Air Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHI JJK L MNOPOOQ ROR| Naturally it is night | A |
| Under the overturned lute with its | B |
| One string I am going my way | C |
| Which has a strange sound | D |
| - | |
| This way the dust that way the dust | E |
| I listen to both sides | F |
| But I keep right on | G |
| I remember the leaves sitting in judgment | H |
| And then winter | I |
| - | |
| I remember the rain with its bundle of roads | J |
| The rain taking all its roads | J |
| Nowhere | K |
| - | |
| Young as I am old as I am | L |
| - | |
| I forget tomorrow the blind man | M |
| I forget the life among the buried windows | N |
| The eyes in the curtains | O |
| The wall | P |
| Growing through the immortelles | O |
| I forget silence | O |
| The owner of the smile | Q |
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| This must be what I wanted to be doing | R |
| Walking at night between the two deserts | O |
| Singing | R |
William Stanley Merwin
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