Once Below A Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGCCHIJI KLMNLLMCOIPMQLRL A ISTIRI RUIVCW CCCICXIYZA2XI | A |
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Once below a time | B |
When my pinned around the spirit | C |
Cut to measure flesh bit | D |
Suit for a serial sum | E |
On the first of each hardship | F |
My paid for slaved for own too late | G |
In love torn breeches and blistered jacket | C |
On the snapping rims of the ashpit | C |
In grottoes I worked with birds | H |
Spiked with a mastiff collar | I |
Tasselled in cellar and snipping shop | J |
Or decked on a cloud swallower | I |
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Then swift from a bursting sea with bottlecork boats | K |
And out of perspective sailors | L |
In common clay clothes disguised as scales | M |
As a he god's paddling water skirts | N |
I astounded the sitting tailors | L |
I set back the clock faced tailors | L |
Then bushily swanked in bear wig and tails | M |
Hopping hot leaved and feathered | C |
From the kangaroo foot of the earth | O |
From the chill silent centre | I |
Trailing the frost bitten cloth | P |
Up through the lubber crust of Wales | M |
I rocketed to astonish | Q |
The flashing needle rock of squatters | L |
The criers of Shabby and Shorten | R |
The famous stitch droppers | L |
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II | A |
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My silly suit hardly yet suffered for | I |
Around some coffin carrying | S |
Birdman or told ghost I hung | T |
And the owl hood the heel hider | I |
Claw fold and hole for the rotten | R |
Head deceived I believed my maker | I |
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The cloud perched tailors' master with nerves for cotton | R |
On the old seas from stories thrashing my wings | U |
Combing with antlers Columbus on fire | I |
I was pierced by the idol tailor's eyes | V |
Glared through shark mask and navigating head | C |
Cold Nansen's beak on a boat full of gongs | W |
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To the boy of common thread | C |
The bright pretender the ridiculous sea dandy | C |
With dry flesh and earth for adorning and bed | C |
It was sweet to drown in the readymade handy water | I |
With my cherry capped dangler green as seaweed | C |
Summoning a child's voice from a webfoot stone | X |
Never never oh never to regret the bugle I wore | I |
On my cleaving arm as I blasted in a wave | Y |
Now shown and mostly bare I would lie down | Z |
Lie down lie down and live | A2 |
As quiet as a bone | X |
Dylan Thomas
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