Death Sonnet I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJJ KLMFrom the icy niche where men placed you | A |
I lower your body to the sunny poor earth | B |
They didn't know I too must sleep in it | C |
and dream on the same pillow | D |
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I place you in the sunny ground with a | E |
mother's sweet care for her napping child | F |
and the earth will be a soft cradle | G |
when it receives your hurt childlike body | H |
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I scatter bits of earth and rose dust | I |
and in the moon's airy and blue powder | J |
what is left of you is a prisoner | J |
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I leave singing my lovely revenge | K |
No hand will reach into the obscure depth | L |
to argue with me over your handful of bones | M |
Gabriela Mistral
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