The Exorcism Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFGHI JKLMCND OLJPQLM| It was homemade and primitive | A |
| like pulling a tooth with a string | B |
| and a slamming door like taking out | C |
| an appendix by kerosene light | D |
| where dogs wandered in and out | C |
| the dirt floored room | E |
| Nothing for the pain that | F |
| everyone wanted to examine | G |
| the twisted heart they thought | H |
| they could shout back into place | I |
| - | |
| Moaning and fluttering their fleshy hands | J |
| on the wind on the wail of the soul possessed | K |
| they certified her in a manner Inquisitional | L |
| frantic when she held to the grip of darkness | M |
| grimly determined to wait the thing out | C |
| something learned from movie sheriffs | N |
| white hats ghostly in the moonlight | D |
| - | |
| When she would not answer though they | O |
| conjured her by heaven and by the all | L |
| mighty names they knew they laid hands | J |
| on her and shouted down the well of her eyes | P |
| Many tongues twisted in their mouths when | Q |
| she went leaving behind only | L |
| the smallest tooth of wickedness | M |
Joyce Sutphen
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