Altarwise By Owl-light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACADADEFGF HIAJHKLABAMAMA ANAOAPKLKLFQFR HFSFHSATAUAVAW| y graveward with his furies | A |
| Abaddon in the hangnail cracked from Adam | B |
| And from his fork a dog among the fairies | A |
| The atlas eater with a jaw for news | A |
| Bit out the mandrake with to morrows scream | C |
| Then penny eyed that gentlemen of wounds | A |
| Old cock from nowheres and the heaven's egg | D |
| With bones unbuttoned to the half way winds | A |
| Hatched from the windy salvage on one leg | D |
| Scraped at my cradle in a walking word | E |
| That night of time under the Christward shelter | F |
| I am the long world's gentlemen he said | G |
| And share my bed with Capricorn and Cancer | F |
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| Death is all metaphors shape in one history | H |
| The child that sucketh long is shooting up | I |
| The planet ducted pelican of circles | A |
| Weans on an artery the genders strip | J |
| Child of the short spark in a shapeless country | H |
| Soon sets alight a long stick from the cradle | K |
| The horizontal cross bones of Abaddon | L |
| You by the cavern over the black stairs | A |
| Rung bone and blade the verticals of Adam | B |
| And manned by midnight Jacob to the stars | A |
| Hairs of your head then said the hollow agent | M |
| Are but the roots of nettles and feathers | A |
| Over the groundworks thrusting through a pavement | M |
| And hemlock headed in the wood of weathers | A |
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| First there was the lamb on knocking knees | A |
| And three dead seasons on a climbing grave | N |
| That Adam's wether in the flock of horns | A |
| Butt of the tree tailed worm that mounted Eve | O |
| Horned down with skullfoot and the skull of toes | A |
| On thunderous pavements in the garden of time | P |
| Rip of the vaults I took my marrow ladle | K |
| Out of the wrinkled undertaker's van | L |
| And Rip Van Winkle from a timeless cradle | K |
| Dipped me breast deep in the descending bone | L |
| The black ram shuffling of the year old winter | F |
| Alone alive among his mutton fold | Q |
| We rung our weathering changes on the ladder | F |
| Said the antipodes and twice spring chimed | R |
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| What is the metre of the dictionary | H |
| The size of genesis the short spark's gender | F |
| Shade without shape the shape of the Pharaohs echo | S |
| My shape of age nagging the wounded whisper | F |
| Which sixth of wind blew out the burning gentry | H |
| Questions are hunchbacks to the poker marrow | S |
| What of a bamboo man amomg your acres | A |
| Corset the boneyards for a crooked boy | T |
| Button your bodice on a hump of splinters | A |
| My camel's eyes will needle through the shroud | U |
| Loves reflection of the mushroom features | A |
| Still snapped by night in the bread sided field | V |
| Once close up smiling in the wall of pictures | A |
| Arc lamped thrown back upon the cutting flood | W |
Dylan Thomas
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