Mute Marriages Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE DFGHI GJKLMEN OPIDQRST| Mute marriages | A |
| the ten ton block of ice | B |
| obstructing the throat the heart | C |
| the red filter of the liver | D |
| the clogged life | E |
| - | |
| It is a glacier | D |
| in which frozen children swim | F |
| ground round with boulders | G |
| pebbles bits of stone | H |
| from other ice ages | I |
| - | |
| Here a lapis glitters | G |
| here a shard of bottle glass | J |
| valuables junk | K |
| the history of a house | L |
| told in its garbage cans | M |
| the history of a life | E |
| in its nightmares | N |
| - | |
| Speak the dream | O |
| Follow the red thread | P |
| of the images | I |
| Defrost the glacier | D |
| with the live heat | Q |
| of your breath | R |
| propelled by the heart's | S |
| explosion | T |
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