Another River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFGHIJKLMNOIDIP QRST| The friends have gone home far up the valley | A |
| of that river into whose estuary | A |
| the man from England sailed in his own age | B |
| in time to catch sight of the late forests | C |
| furring in black the remotest edges | D |
| of the majestic water always it | E |
| appeared to me that he arrived just as | F |
| an evening was beginning and toward the end | G |
| of summer when the converging surface | H |
| lay as a single vast mirror gazing | I |
| upward into the pearl light that was | J |
| already stained with the first saffron | K |
| of sunset on which the high wavering trails | L |
| of migrant birds flowed southward as though there were | M |
| no end to them the wind had dropped and the tide | N |
| and the current for a moment seemed to hang | O |
| still in balance and the creaking and knocking | I |
| of wood stopped all at once and the known voices | D |
| died away and the smells and rocking | I |
| and starvation of the voyage had become | P |
| a sleep behind them as they lay becalmed | Q |
| on the reflection of their Half Moon | R |
| while the sky blazed and then the tide lifted them | S |
| up the dark passage they had no name for | T |
William Stanley Merwin
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