Self-portrait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE F GHIE JE| She was not a slender woman | A |
| but her skin was milk | B |
| mixed in with strawberry jam | C |
| between her legs the word purple was born | D |
| her hair was the color of wheat yellow butter | E |
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| Her eyes were dark as the North Atlantic sea | F |
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| She learned the untranslatable words of dawn | G |
| She studied her own fear wrote its verses | H |
| She used the hole in her heart to play wind music | I |
| She built her book houses over her empty cellar | E |
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| She nursed on the muse at first | J |
| then became her own mother | E |
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