At The San Francisco Airport Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDCDC EFEFE GHGHI JKJKJ| This is the terminal the light | A |
| Gives perfect vision false and hard | B |
| The metal glitters deep and bright | A |
| Great planes are waiting in the yard | B |
| They are already in the night | A |
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| And you are here beside me small | C |
| Containted and fragile and intent | D |
| On things that I but half recall | C |
| Yet going whither you are bent | D |
| I am the past and that is all | C |
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| But you and I in part are one | E |
| The frightened brain the nervous will | F |
| The knowledge of what must be done | E |
| The passion to acquire the skill | F |
| To face that which you dare not shun | E |
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| The rain of matter upon sense | G |
| Destroys me momently The score | H |
| There comes what will come The expense | G |
| Is what one thought and something more | H |
| One's being and intelligence | I |
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| This is the terminal the break | J |
| Beyond this point on lines of air | K |
| You take the way that you must take | J |
| And I remain in light and stare | K |
| In light and nothing else awake | J |
Yvor Winters
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