Hypocrite Women Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHI GJJ KLF MFF NOE| Hypocrite 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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