The Merry Window Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBBE FAG HIBI BJKLM| The alabaster legs of the lonely woman | A |
| hang from the window like white ensigns | B |
| out of the laughing window like false teeth | C |
| sheets flagstaffs telescopes rolls of music | D |
| or you would say beheaded necks of swans | B |
| or the electric horns of factories | B |
| where foreign dreams are nightly fabricated | E |
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| Yearning for her coal once heaved in the seam | F |
| for her the sewers shrieked their way through London | A |
| and pigeons ate each other in the air | G |
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| But the deserted lady is frozen to the marrow | H |
| her heart has floated into her left leg | I |
| and her forked tongue asks in three languages | B |
| for a bassoon a pyramid and an egg | I |
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| All the white birds have flown out of her lips | B |
| the Polar Bear has eaten her left breast | J |
| her eyes are covered with yellow webs of dust | K |
| in fact she is what a Saint would call abandoned | L |
| since even her own self has forgotten her | M |
Francis Scarfe
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