The River Of Bees Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF G H HHI HJKLM HNH OH H PF F III| In a dream I returned to the river of bees | A |
| Five orange trees by the bridge and | B |
| Beside two mills my house | C |
| Into whose courtyard a blind man followed | D |
| The goats and stood singing | E |
| Of what was older | F |
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| Soon it will be fifteen years | G |
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| He was old he will have fallen into his eyes | H |
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| I took my eyes | H |
| A long way to the calenders | H |
| Room after room asking how shall I live | I |
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| One of the ends is made of streets | H |
| One man processions carry through it | J |
| Empty bottles their | K |
| Images of hope | L |
| It was offered to me by name | M |
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| Once once and once | H |
| In the same city I was born | N |
| Asking what shall I say | H |
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| He will have fallen into his mouth | O |
| Men think they are better than grass | H |
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| I return to his voice rising like a forkful of hay | H |
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| He was old he is not real nothing is real | P |
| Nor the noise of death drawing water | F |
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| We are the echo of the future | F |
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| On the door it says what to do to survive | I |
| But we were not born to survive | I |
| Only to live | I |
William Stanley Merwin
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