Lifeguard Clinging To A Steeple Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBD EFGH HIB JB| Why are all the survivors of the needle's eye | A |
| nude as if their lifethread had disrobed | B |
| rather than sewn them Sans coat fare | C |
| we proceed it seems only to precede | B |
| birth to burial are not yet here | D |
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| But when did we first start embracing | E |
| the wakes of ourselves in each other rather | F |
| than each other As the fruit falls | G |
| to hiatus us its bloom spoiled by last year's cores | H |
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| Or the sun whose portrait rots in our pores | H |
| those sweatbeads blurred in closeup but clear afar | I |
| that pointillist pap that hybrid suicide | B |
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| The face carefully tattooed around love's wounds | J |
| does not itself look injured | B |
Bill Knott
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