On Privilege Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIH JFGGF KKLLM NKOPP M| The rampant cane fields rife with disease | A |
| the ocean carrying only shells to the altar | B |
| a beach left to penitents their easy sweat | C |
| cursing the sand that brought an increase | D |
| in Tourism Could this scene be altered | E |
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| Next to a pile of seaweed the ubiquitous gull | F |
| ate from a plate of dead things rejections | G |
| Up in the cane fields sitting beside an anthill | H |
| a young and foolish version of myself had once hid | I |
| scratching in the dirt his tired testament his will | H |
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| To my firstborn I would leave the sea the sand | J |
| to my future love But my father s grim shovel | F |
| I would bury under a palm tree under tendrils | G |
| of clematis its showy blooms filled with poisons | G |
| One should not be alone in the cane fields its evil | F |
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| captured in its wide paragraphs its evil refined | K |
| like sugar At a resort staggered down a cliffside | K |
| to yet another beach I sat one morning studying | L |
| the flowers of the crown of thorns its bloodletting | L |
| worthy of an entire chapter in a book | M |
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| on phlebotomy In the air I smelled privilege | N |
| I remembered the cane fields The years rewind | K |
| so easily for one who is a visitor in his own home | O |
| The sea silences these false lines and mocks me | P |
| with promises of splendor and bright fish reminds me | P |
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| I am a fisherman casting an empty hook | M |
C. Dale Young
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