The British Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBD EFGHI JKEEL MNALO APLQR E| We are a people living in shells and moving | A |
| Crablike reticent awkward deeply suspicious | B |
| Watching the world from a corner of half closed eyelids | C |
| Afraid lest someone show that he hates or loves us | B |
| Afraid lest someone weep in the railway train | D |
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| We are coiled and clenched like a foetus clad in armour | E |
| We hold our hearts for fear they fly like eagles | F |
| We grasp our tongues for fear they cry like trumpets | G |
| We listen to our own footsteps We look both ways | H |
| Before we cross the silent empty road | I |
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| We are a people easily made uneasy | J |
| Especially wary of praise of passion of scarlet | K |
| Cloaks of gesturing hands of the smiling stranger | E |
| In the alien hat who talks to all or the other | E |
| In the unfamiliar coat who talks to none | L |
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| We are afraid of too cold thought or too hot | M |
| Blood of the opening of long shut shafts or cupboards | N |
| Of light in caves of X rays probes unclothing | A |
| Of emotion intolerable revelation | L |
| Of lust in the light of love in the palm of the hand | O |
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| We are afraid of one day on a sunny morning | A |
| Meeting ourselves or another without the usual | P |
| Outer sheath the comfortable conversation | L |
| And saying all all all we did not mean to | Q |
| All all all we did not know we meant | R |
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| Submitted by Stephen Fryer | E |
Arthur Seymour John Tessimond
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