Once Below A Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGCCHIJI KLMNLLMCOIPMQLRL A ISTIRI RUIVCW CCCICXIYZA2X| I | 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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