The Tombstone Told When She Died Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAFGDFHIJKLHIJML NOPGQRSPTIThe tombstone told when she died | A |
Her two surnames stopped me still | B |
A virgin married at rest | C |
She married in this pouring place | D |
That I struck one day by luck | E |
Before I heard in my mother's side | A |
Or saw in the looking glass shell | F |
The rain through her cold heart speak | G |
And the sun killed in her face | D |
More the thick stone cannot tell | F |
Before she lay on a stranger's bed | H |
With a hand plunged through her hair | I |
Or that rainy tongue beat back | J |
Through the devilish years and innocent deaths | K |
To the room of a secret child | L |
Among men later I heard it said | H |
She cried her white dressed limbs were bare | I |
And her red lips were kissed black | J |
She wept in her pain and made mouths | M |
Talked and tore though her eyes smiled | L |
I who saw in a hurried film | N |
Death and this mad heroine | O |
Meet once on a mortal wall | P |
Heard her speak through the chipped beak | G |
Of the stone bird guarding her | Q |
I died before bedtime came | R |
But my womb was bellowing | S |
And I felt with my bare fall | P |
A blazing red harsh head tear up | T |
And the dear floods of his hair | I |
Dylan Thomas
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