Once Below A Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGCCHIJI KLMNLLMCOIPMQLRL A ISTIRI RUIVCW CCCICXIYZA2X

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Once below a timeB
When my pinned around the spiritC
Cut to measure flesh bitD
Suit for a serial sumE
On the first of each hardshipF
My paid for slaved for own too lateG
In love torn breeches and blistered jacketC
On the snapping rims of the ashpitC
In grottoes I worked with birdsH
Spiked with a mastiff collarI
Tasselled in cellar and snipping shopJ
Or decked on a cloud swallowerI
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Then swift from a bursting sea with bottlecork boatsK
And out of perspective sailorsL
In common clay clothes disguised as scalesM
As a he god's paddling water skirtsN
I astounded the sitting tailorsL
I set back the clock faced tailorsL
Then bushily swanked in bear wig and tailsM
Hopping hot leaved and featheredC
From the kangaroo foot of the earthO
From the chill silent centreI
Trailing the frost bitten clothP
Up through the lubber crust of WalesM
I rocketed to astonishQ
The flashing needle rock of squattersL
The criers of Shabby and ShortenR
The famous stitch droppersL
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My silly suit hardly yet suffered forI
Around some coffin carryingS
Birdman or told ghost I hungT
And the owl hood the heel hiderI
Claw fold and hole for the rottenR
Head deceived I believed my makerI
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The cloud perched tailors' master with nerves for cottonR
On the old seas from stories thrashing my wingsU
Combing with antlers Columbus on fireI
I was pierced by the idol tailor's eyesV
Glared through shark mask and navigating headC
Cold Nansen's beak on a boat full of gongsW
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To the boy of common threadC
The bright pretender the ridiculous sea dandyC
With dry flesh and earth for adorning and bedC
It was sweet to drown in the readymade handy waterI
With my cherry capped dangler green as seaweedC
Summoning a child's voice from a webfoot stoneX
Never never oh never to regret the bugle I woreI
On my cleaving arm as I blasted in a waveY
Now shown and mostly bare I would lie downZ
Lie down lie down and liveA2
As quiet as a boneX

Dylan Thomas



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