Hill Of The Foreskins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFG HIJB KLM NJIJBB IOPQPR STUV WIIIXI| what was the moment of coition like | A |
| come Zariba let down your gates | B |
| turn turtle all you captives of the flesh | C |
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| square suns | D |
| walled in by darkness from the crypt | E |
| young bodies stripped to make a mock of time | F |
| toy beauty dipped in feral wine | G |
| - | |
| bones buried in the Wood | H |
| bones buried in the gold of Sun | I |
| bones buried in the very gates of War | J |
| great searching of the gates | B |
| - | |
| impatient earthquake | K |
| shuffles all the pack | L |
| redeals the reds the golds the blacks | M |
| - | |
| birdlike and blackened | N |
| secret as a door | J |
| sharp knives to stallion | I |
| through a forest floor | J |
| great searching of the gates | B |
| floodgates | B |
| - | |
| the day is done | I |
| and I can feel the pebbles | O |
| in my hand | P |
| crumble and crumble | Q |
| to a beach of sand | P |
| whereon you walk | R |
| - | |
| yet do they prance in | S |
| circumcision round the pole | T |
| stride over mountain Tops | U |
| gurgle the rising Tide | V |
| - | |
| and if a slender boat | W |
| should anchor near the Sun | I |
| would mad queens madly run | I |
| girdles undone | I |
| or would they come | X |
| black scaffolds to the Sun | I |
Harry Crosby
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