The Alligator Bride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HIGJK HLMNOE PQRS TUVK WVXYZK IHTA2VDB2B2OC2 D2TZEKE2YC| The clock of my days winds down | A |
| The cat eats sparrows outside my window | B |
| Once she brought me a small rabbit | C |
| which we devoured together under | D |
| the Empire Table | E |
| while the men shrieked | F |
| repossessing the gold umbrella | G |
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| Now the beard on my clock turns white | H |
| My cat stares into dark corners | I |
| missing her gold umbrella | G |
| She is in love | J |
| with the Alligator Bride | K |
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| Ah the tiny fine white | H |
| teeth The Bride propped on her tail | L |
| in white lace | M |
| stares from the holes | N |
| of her eyes Her stuck open mouth | O |
| laughs at minister and people | E |
| - | |
| On bare new wood | P |
| fourteen tomatoes | Q |
| a dozen ears of corn | R |
| six bottles of white wine | S |
| - | |
| a melon | T |
| a cat | U |
| broccoli | V |
| and the Alligator Bride | K |
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| The color of bubble gum | W |
| the consistency of petroleum jelly | V |
| wickedness oozes | X |
| from the palm of my left hand | Y |
| My cat licks it | Z |
| I watch the Alligator Bride | K |
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| Big houses like shabby boulders | I |
| hold themselves tight | H |
| in gelatin | T |
| I am unable to daydream | A2 |
| The sky is a gun aimed at me | V |
| I pull the trigger | D |
| The skull of my promises | B2 |
| leans in a black closet gapes | B2 |
| with its good mouth | O |
| for a teat to suck | C2 |
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| A bird flies back and forth | D2 |
| in my house that is covered by gelatin | T |
| and the cat leaps at it | Z |
| missing Under the Empire Table | E |
| the Alligator Bride | K |
| lies in her bridal shroud | E2 |
| My left hand | Y |
| leaks on the Chinese carpet | C |
Donald Hall
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