It Is March Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIFEJ FKF JLF M| It is March and black dust falls out of the books | A |
| Soon I will be gone | B |
| The tall spirit who lodged here has | C |
| Left already | D |
| On the avenues the colorless thread lies under | E |
| Old prices | F |
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| When you look back there is always the past | G |
| Even when it has vanished | H |
| But when you look forward | I |
| With your dirty knuckles and the wingless | F |
| Bird on your shoulder | E |
| What can you write | J |
| - | |
| The bitterness is still rising in the old mines | F |
| The fist is coming out of the egg | K |
| The thermometers out of the mouths of the corpses | F |
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| At a certain height | J |
| The tails of the kites for a moment are | L |
| Covered with footsteps | F |
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| Whatever I have to do has not yet begun | M |
William Stanley Merwin
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