Cancer Cells Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFBFBFFGHIJBJJJ| 'Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die' nurse Royal Marsden hospital | A |
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| They have forgotten how to die | B |
| And so extend their killing life | C |
| I and my tumour dearly fight | D |
| Let's hope a double death is out | E |
| I need to see my tumour dead | F |
| A tumour which forgets to die | B |
| But plans to murder me instead | F |
| But I remember how to die | B |
| Though all my witnesses are dead | F |
| But I remember what they said | F |
| Of tumours which would render them | G |
| As blind and dumb as they had been | H |
| Before the birth of that disease | I |
| Which brought the tumour into play | J |
| The black cells will dry up and die | B |
| Or sing with joy and have their way | J |
| They breed so quietly night and day | J |
| You never know they never say | J |
Harold Pinter
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