Every Death Is Magic From The Enemy To Be Avenged Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEFGHHIJ| My God my God why hast thou forsaken me | A |
| Psalm | B |
| - | |
| When fever burned the last light out of my daughter s eyes | C |
| I swore to find and kill the ones to blame Men | D |
| must mount the long boat in the dark with spears | E |
| At dawn where the flowering spicebush hid my scent | F |
| I crouched A young wife newborn slung across her chest | G |
| came first for springwater She stooped My god | H |
| for vengeance spoke her secret name inside my ear Her god | H |
| stepped back with no scream his right hand at his mouth | I |
| the knuckles clenched between the pointed teeth | J |
Brooks Haxton
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