The Painted Bed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DE FEG HIJ KLM NC| 'Even when I danced erect | A |
| by the Nile s garden | B |
| I constructed Necropolis | C |
| - | |
| Ten million fellaheen cells | D |
| of my body floated stones | E |
| to establish a white museum ' | - |
| - | |
| Grisly foul and terrific | F |
| is the speech of bones | E |
| thighs and arms slackened | G |
| - | |
| into desiccated sacs of flesh | H |
| hanging from an armature | I |
| where muscle was and fat | J |
| - | |
| 'I lie on the painted bed | K |
| diminishing concentrated | L |
| on the journey I undertake | M |
| - | |
| to repose without pain | N |
| in the palace of darkness | C |
| my body beside your body ' | - |
Donald Hall
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