The Writer's Hand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEB FGHIJKL MNOPPQR| What is your want perpetual invalid | A |
| Whose fist is always beating on my breast's | B |
| Bone wall incurable dictator of my house | B |
| And breaker of its peace What is your will | C |
| Obscure uneasy sprite where must I run | D |
| What must I seize to win | E |
| A brief respite from your repining cries | B |
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| Is it a star the passionate short spark | F |
| Produced by friction with another's flesh | G |
| You ache more darkly after Is it power | H |
| To snap restriction's leash to leap | I |
| Like bloodhounds on the enemy There is no grip | J |
| Can crush the fate you fight Or is it to escape | K |
| Into the dream perspectives maps and speed create | L |
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| You never listen disillusion's dumb | M |
| To your unheeding ear But see my hand | N |
| The only army to enforce your claim | O |
| Upon life's hostile land five pale effete | P |
| Aesthetic looking fingers whose chief feat | P |
| Is to trace lines like these across a page | Q |
| What small relief can they bring to your siege | R |
David Gascoyne
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