Fracture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJ KLCMN OPJJQ JRKJJ STNNK UKHVJ WXKNK| This constant ache | A |
| is my leg's message to me | B |
| 'Hello Hello Hello | C |
| You're getting there ' it says | D |
| 'step by step ' | E |
| - | |
| Legs aren't stars | F |
| which sputter out | G |
| go on gleaming anyway | H |
| I've lived of course | I |
| with phantom limbs | J |
| - | |
| but this fracture | K |
| doesn't point to | L |
| amputation No | C |
| It hisses at something | M |
| much more final | N |
| - | |
| Skin lantern | O |
| necklace of teeth | P |
| the bones sinews | J |
| are in revolt against us | J |
| We keep them down | Q |
| - | |
| with little bribes | J |
| vitamins penicillin | R |
| now these pounds of plaster | K |
| but they will bury us | J |
| good Bolsheviks | J |
| - | |
| know it | S |
| So they've got time to bide | T |
| Meanwhile spread eagle | N |
| on these crutches a cripple | N |
| sucking the ground with rubber | K |
| - | |
| nipples or else a knight | U |
| up to my ass in armor | K |
| I limp swing my way | H |
| across the street | V |
| up the steps | J |
| - | |
| moving here now | W |
| step by step | X |
| towards the future | K |
| that incurable | N |
| fracture | K |
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