Metho Drinker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBCECA FGHDGHIIFUnder the death of winter's leaves he lies | A |
who cried to Nothing and the terrible night | B |
to be his home and bread 'O take from me | C |
the weight and waterfall ceaseless Time | D |
that batters down my weakness the knives of light | B |
whose thrust I cannot turn the cruelty | C |
of human eyes that dare not touch nor pity ' | E |
Under the worn leaves of the winter city | C |
safe in the house of Nothing now he lies | A |
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His white and burning girl his woman of fire | F |
creeps to his heart and sets a candle there | G |
to melt away the flesh that hides from bone | H |
to eat the nerve that tethers him in time | D |
He will lie warm until the bone is bare | G |
and on a dead dark moon he wakes alone | H |
It was for Death he took her death is but this | I |
and yet he is uneasy under her kiss | I |
and winces from that acid of her desire | F |
Judith Wright
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