O Carib Isle! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HIJK LMNII NCOPQR STUT KKVKK WXPY| The tarantula rattling at the lily s foot | A |
| Across the feet of the dead laid in white sand | B |
| Near the coral beach nor zigzag fiddle crabs | C |
| Side stilting from the path that shift subvert | D |
| And anagrammatize your name No nothing here | E |
| Below the palsy that one eucalyptus lifts | F |
| In wrinkled shadows mourns | G |
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| And yet suppose | H |
| I count these nacreous frames of tropic death | I |
| Brutal necklaces of shells around each grave | J |
| Squared off so carefully Then | K |
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| To the white sand I may speak a name fertile | L |
| Albeit in a stranger tongue Tree names flower names | M |
| Deliberate gainsay death s brittle crypt Meanwhile | N |
| The wind that knots itself in one great death | I |
| Coils and withdraws So syllables want breath | I |
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| But where is the Captain of this doubloon isle | N |
| Without a turnstile Who but catchword crabs | C |
| Patrols the dry groins of the underbrush | O |
| What man or What | P |
| Is Commissioner of mildew throughout the ambushed senses | Q |
| His Carib mathematics web the eyes baked lenses | R |
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| Under the poinciana of a noon or afternoon | S |
| Let fiery blossoms clot the light render my ghost | T |
| Sieved upward white and black along the air | U |
| Until it meets the blue s comedian host | T |
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| Let not the pilgrim see himself again | K |
| For slow evisceration bound like those huge terrapin | K |
| Each daybreak on the wharf their brine caked eyes | V |
| Spiked overturned such thunder in their strain | K |
| And clenched beaks coughing for the surge again | K |
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| Slagged of the hurricane I cast within its flow | W |
| Congeal by afternoons here satin and vacant | X |
| You have given me the shell Satan carbonic amulet | P |
| Sere of the sun exploded in the sea | Y |
Harold Hart Crane
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