For All Those Who Died Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEF GH IIJ KL HM NO PH QRS HTU VWFX UA YZA2| For all those who died | A |
| stripped naked shaved shorn | B |
| - | |
| For all those who screamed | C |
| in vain to the Great Goddess | D |
| only to have their tongues | E |
| ripped out at the root | F |
| - | |
| For all those who were pricked racked broken on the wheel | G |
| for the sins of their Inquisitors | H |
| - | |
| For all those whose beauty | I |
| stirred their torturers to fury | I |
| for all those whose ugliness did the same | J |
| - | |
| For all those who were neither ugly nor beautiful | K |
| but only women who would not submit | L |
| - | |
| For all those quick fingers | H |
| broken in the vise | M |
| - | |
| For all those soft arms | N |
| pulled from their sockets | O |
| - | |
| For all those budding breasts | P |
| ripped with hot pincers | H |
| - | |
| For all those midwives killed merely for the sin | Q |
| of delivering man | R |
| to an imperfect world | S |
| - | |
| For all those witch women my sisters | H |
| who breathed freer | T |
| as the flames took them | U |
| - | |
| knowing as they shed | V |
| their female bodies | W |
| the seared flesh falling like fruit | F |
| in the flames | X |
| - | |
| that death alone would cleanse them | U |
| of the sin for which they died | A |
| - | |
| the sin of being born a woman | Y |
| who is more than the sum | Z |
| of her parts | A2 |
Erica Jong
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