I Only Am Escaped Alone To Tell Thee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFGHIJ KLMNONIPIQRSTUVWHEXB QHV| I tell you that I see her still | A |
| At the dark entrance of the hall | B |
| One gas lamp burning near her shoulder | C |
| Shone also from her other side | D |
| Where hung the long inaccurate glass | E |
| Whose pictures were as troubled water | C |
| An immense shadow had its hand | F |
| Between us on the floor and seemed | G |
| To hump the knuckles nervously | H |
| A giant crab readying to walk | I |
| Or a blanket moving in its sleep | J |
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| You will remember with a smile | K |
| Instructed by movies to reminisce | L |
| How strict her corsets must have been | M |
| How the huge arrangements of her hair | N |
| Would certainly betray the least | O |
| Impassionate displacement there | N |
| It was no rig for dallying | I |
| And maybe only marriage could | P |
| Derange that queenly scaffolding | I |
| As when a great ship coming home | Q |
| Coasts in the harbor dropping sail | R |
| And loosing all the tackle that had laced | S |
| Her in the long lanes | T |
| I know | U |
| We need not draw this figure out | V |
| But all that whalebone came for whales | W |
| And all the whales lived in the sea | H |
| In calm beneath the troubled glass | E |
| Until the needle drew their blood | X |
| I see her standing in the hall | B |
| Where the mirror's lashed to blood and foam | Q |
| And the black flukes of agony | H |
| Beat at the air till the light blows out | V |
Howard Nemerov
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