The Seed-at-zero Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDCE ABCDDCE FGHIJKI LFMNNOM LFMNNOM PQDRSPQ PQDRSPQ| The seed at zero shall not storm | A |
| That town of ghosts the trodden womb | B |
| With her rampart to his tapping | C |
| No god in hero tumble down | D |
| Like a tower on the town | D |
| Dumbly and divinely stumbling | C |
| Over the manwaging line | E |
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| The seed at zero shall not storm | A |
| That town of ghosts the manwaged tomb | B |
| With her rampart to his tapping | C |
| No god in hero tumble down | D |
| Like a tower on the town | D |
| Dumbly and divinely leaping | C |
| Over the warbearing line | E |
| - | |
| Through the rampart of the sky | F |
| Shall the star flanked seed be riddled | G |
| Manna for the rumbling ground | H |
| Quickening for the riddled sea | I |
| Settled on a virgin stronghold | J |
| He shall grapple with the guard | K |
| And the keeper of the key | I |
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| May a humble village labour | L |
| And a continent deny | F |
| A hemisphere may scold him | M |
| And a green inch be his bearer | N |
| Let the hero seed find harbour | N |
| Seaports by a drunken shore | O |
| Have their thirsty sailors hide him | M |
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| May be a humble planet labour | L |
| And a continent deny | F |
| A village green may scold him | M |
| And a high sphere be his bearer | N |
| Let the hero seed find harbour | N |
| Seaports by a thirsty shore | O |
| Have their drunken sailors hide him | M |
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| Man in seed in seed at zero | P |
| From the foreign fields of space | Q |
| Shall not thunder on the town | D |
| With a star flanked garrison | R |
| Nor the cannons of his kingdom | S |
| Shall the hero in tomorrow | P |
| Range on the sky scraping place | Q |
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| Man in seed in seed at zero | P |
| From the star flanked fields of space | Q |
| Thunders on the foreign town | D |
| With a sand bagged garrison | R |
| Nor the cannons of his kingdom | S |
| Shall the hero in to morrow | P |
| Range from the grave groping place | Q |
Dylan Thomas
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