Hypocrite Women Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHI GJJ KLF MFF NOEHypocrite women how seldom we speak | A |
of our own doubts while dubiously | B |
we mother man in his doubt | C |
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And if at Mill Valley perched in the trees | D |
the sweet rain drifting through western air | E |
a white sweating bull of a poet told us | F |
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our cunts are ugly why didn't we | G |
admit we have thought so too And | H |
what shame They are not for the eye | I |
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No they are dark and wrinkled and hairy | G |
caves of the Moon And when a | J |
dark humming fills us a | J |
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coldness towards life | K |
we are too much women to | L |
own to such unwomanliness | F |
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Whorishly with the psychopomp | M |
we play and plead and say | F |
nothing of this later And our dreams | F |
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with what frivolity we have pared them | N |
like toenails clipped them like ends of | O |
split hair | E |
Denise Levertov
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