The Tombstone Told When She Died Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAFGDFHIJKLHIJML NOPGQRSPTI

The tombstone told when she diedA
Her two surnames stopped me stillB
A virgin married at restC
She married in this pouring placeD
That I struck one day by luckE
Before I heard in my mother's sideA
Or saw in the looking glass shellF
The rain through her cold heart speakG
And the sun killed in her faceD
More the thick stone cannot tellF
Before she lay on a stranger's bedH
With a hand plunged through her hairI
Or that rainy tongue beat backJ
Through the devilish years and innocent deathsK
To the room of a secret childL
Among men later I heard it saidH
She cried her white dressed limbs were bareI
And her red lips were kissed blackJ
She wept in her pain and made mouthsM
Talked and tore though her eyes smiledL
I who saw in a hurried filmN
Death and this mad heroineO
Meet once on a mortal wallP
Heard her speak through the chipped beakG
Of the stone bird guarding herQ
I died before bedtime cameR
But my womb was bellowingS
And I felt with my bare fallP
A blazing red harsh head tear upT
And the dear floods of his hairI

Dylan Thomas



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