The Heart, The Child, The World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEF FGABBHIJKGKLMNOP QFBRALSTUB VW| Out in the world the child | A |
| cries for the mother | B |
| as the wound cries for salt | C |
| as the lover cries | D |
| for her unrequited lover | B |
| as the ice cries out | E |
| for melting in the spring | F |
| - | |
| My heart is a spring | F |
| that pumps red blood | G |
| I would give my child | A |
| my girl child my daughter | B |
| the vision of a mother | B |
| who does not flinch | H |
| when the heavy heel of man | I |
| comes down | J |
| who loves the penis | K |
| when it pumps rich red blood | G |
| but values the wholeness | K |
| of her heart | L |
| above that battering organ | M |
| that dumb implement | N |
| which can so easily turn | O |
| from kind to cruel | P |
| - | |
| My heart is out in the world | Q |
| like an orphan howling | F |
| on a street corner | B |
| I want a warm safe place | R |
| to hide my books my child | A |
| my heart | L |
| that is scarred | S |
| seamed like a belly | T |
| which has given birth | U |
| to an imperious baby Caesar | B |
| - | |
| but still | V |
| despite its bursting fullness | W |
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