Statue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJK LMINIOPQRSI TURIQQQ QVQWQ XXXQYZU| Cement up to the neck | A |
| my head packed | B |
| with unsaid words | C |
| A gullet full of pebbles | D |
| a mouth | E |
| of cast concrete | F |
| I am stuck | G |
| in a lovelessness so thick | H |
| it seems my natural element | I |
| My mouth closes | J |
| on stones | K |
| - | |
| Hand frozen to my chin | L |
| my back a question mark | M |
| my heart soldered | I |
| to its arteries | N |
| my feet planted | I |
| in grass that cannot grow | O |
| The Thinker ponders | P |
| ten more years of this | Q |
| a woman | R |
| living the life | S |
| of a statue | I |
| - | |
| Break free | T |
| Melt the metal | U |
| in love's cauldron | R |
| open doors eyes heart | I |
| those frozen ventricles | Q |
| those stuck tongues | Q |
| those stuttering dependencies | Q |
| - | |
| When the statue walks | Q |
| will the world dissolve | V |
| When she shakes her shoulders | Q |
| will the sky shrug | W |
| skitter off in space | Q |
| - | |
| Or will the clouds cluster | X |
| to cover her | X |
| the blue wind gather | X |
| at her shoulders | Q |
| the men streak by | Y |
| like jet trails in the air | Z |
| utterly ephemeral | U |
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