Echoing Light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFGHIJKLMNGAOPQ| When I was beginning to read I imagined | A |
| that bridges had something to do with birds | B |
| and with what seemed to be cages but I knew | C |
| that they were not cages it must have been autumn | D |
| with the dusty light flashing from the streetcar wires | E |
| and those orange places on fire in the pictures | E |
| and now indeed it is autumn the clear | F |
| days not far from the sea with a small wind nosing | G |
| over dry grass that yesterday was green | H |
| the empty corn standing trembling and a down | I |
| of ghost flowers veiling the ignored fields | J |
| and everywhere the colors I cannot take | K |
| my eyes from all of them red even the wide streams | L |
| red it is the season of migrants | M |
| flying at night feeling the turning earth | N |
| beneath them and I woke in the city hearing | G |
| the call notes of the plover then again and | A |
| again before I slept and here far downriver | O |
| flocking together echoing close to the shore | P |
| the longest bridges have opened their slender wings | Q |
William Stanley Merwin
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