Shadow Hand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHCIJKLKMHNGOP MQ QR| Duporte the roofer that calm voice | A |
| those sure hands gentling weathered tiles | B |
| into new generations or | C |
| half of him rising through a roof | D |
| like some sea spirit from a wave | E |
| to turn shaped slates into fish scales | F |
| that would swim in the rain Duporte | G |
| who seemed to smooth arguments by | H |
| listening and whom they sent for | C |
| when a bone was broken or when | I |
| they had a pig to kill because | J |
| of the way he did it only | K |
| yesterday after all these years | L |
| I learned that he had suddenly | K |
| gone blind while still in his sixties | M |
| and died soon after that while I | H |
| was away and I never knew | N |
| and it seemed as though it had just | G |
| happened and it had not been long | O |
| since we stood in the road talking | P |
| about owls nesting in chimneys | M |
| in the dark in empty houses | Q |
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| From 'The Shadow Of Sirius' | Q |
| Publisher Copper Canyon Press September | R |
William Stanley Merwin
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