The Tombstone Told When She Died Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAFGDFHIJKLHIJML NOPGQRSPTI| The 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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