William Stanley Merwin

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Another River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFGHIJKLMNOIDIP QRST

The friends have gone home far up the valleyA
of that river into whose estuaryA
the man from England sailed in his own ageB
in time to catch sight of the late forestsC
furring in black the remotest edgesD
of the majestic water always itE
appeared to me that he arrived just asF
an evening was beginning and toward the endG
of summer when the converging surfaceH
lay as a single vast mirror gazingI
upward into the pearl light that wasJ
already stained with the first saffronK
of sunset on which the high wavering trailsL
of migrant birds flowed southward as though there wereM
no end to them the wind had dropped and the tideN
and the current for a moment seemed to hangO
still in balance and the creaking and knockingI
of wood stopped all at once and the known voicesD
died away and the smells and rockingI
and starvation of the voyage had becomeP
a sleep behind them as they lay becalmedQ
on the reflection of their Half MoonR
while the sky blazed and then the tide lifted themS
up the dark passage they had no name forT

William Stanley Merwin



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