The Surgery Of The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFG HIIIJ KLAM ANEO| At the furthermost reach of the sea | A |
| where Atlantis sinks under the wake of the waves | B |
| I have come to heal my life | C |
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| I knit together like a broken arm | D |
| The salt fills the crevices of bone | E |
| The sea takes all the fragments of my lives | F |
| grinds them home | G |
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| I wake up in a waterbed with you | H |
| The sea is singing my skin | I |
| sings against your skin | I |
| The waves are all around us within | I |
| We sleep stuck to each other's salt | J |
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| I am healing in your arms | K |
| I am leaning to write without the loss of love | L |
| I am growing deeper lungs here by the sea | A |
| The waves are knives they glitter cut clean | M |
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| This is the sea's surgery | A |
| This is the cutting the healing both | N |
| This is where bright sunlight warms the bone | E |
| fog erases us then makes us whole | O |
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