Locked Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA AA BA CA DA EA AA FA GA AA| Children tattooed pierced and studded dreadlocked | A |
| parents panicked indecisive deadlocked | A |
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| Mother to daughter live as you must if you must | A |
| for just a bit longer keep the door to your bed locked | A |
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| Son to father teach me what you know | B |
| but I won't agree to keep the door to my head locked | A |
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| Mother to father where have you been and where | C |
| have you kept your thoughts and all you might have said locked | A |
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| They'd come so far and then she saw in him | D |
| the door to their life their home their daily bread locked | A |
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| One night in a fiery panic dream he ran | E |
| and found the door toward which he'd wildly fled locked | A |
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| Aging but at long last ripe and ready | A |
| she found the on ramp to the road ahead locked | A |
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| They learned too late the cost of keeping that cellar | F |
| full of truths that could not be gainsaid locked | A |
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| The young return Too many find the way back | G |
| to lives in the country for which they fought and bled locked | A |
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| Eric old friend as you try each door in the mind | A |
| will you wake one day to find the heart instead locked | A |
Eric Torgersen
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