Lifeline Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DBEB FGHI JFHK LKMN| earth as a dissolute sky dissolves | A |
| a mozambican woman turns mother | B |
| her water breaking loose to pool with the flood | C |
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| licking the trunk below a country sized | D |
| puddle calls forth the child whose name the mother | B |
| vowed would not be drowned no matter how | E |
| high she had to climb my mother's water | B |
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| washed her bare yellow bathroom tile many | F |
| years ago a diluvial warning | G |
| of my struggle to arrive we fought to | H |
| get me out and have been tugging at each | I |
| - | |
| other ever since tethered by a cord | J |
| that simply thickens when it's cut we | F |
| descended then thirsting churning not into | H |
| the waters that hound the mozambican | K |
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| mother baying her and her baby in | L |
| the tree but into that enduring ocean | K |
| in which as mother daughter or both a | M |
| woman's only choices are drink or swim | N |
Evie Shockley
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