Term Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBACCDEEFCE| At the last minute a word is waiting | A |
| not heard that way before and not to be | B |
| repeated or ever be remembered | C |
| one that always had been a household word | C |
| used in speaking of the ordinary | B |
| everyday recurrences of living | A |
| not newly chosen or long considered | C |
| or a matter for comment afterward | C |
| who would ever have thought it was the one | D |
| saying itself from the beginning through | E |
| all its uses and circumstances to | E |
| utter at last that meaning of its own | F |
| for which it had long been the only word | C |
| though it seems now that any word would do | E |
William Stanley Merwin
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