Naked Girl And Mirror Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDE FGF GHE DIDJKJE LMNDODP QRRSTT| This is not I I had no body once | A |
| only what served my need to laugh and run | B |
| and stare at stars and tentatively dance | C |
| on the fringe of foam and wave and sand and sun | B |
| Eyes loved hands reached for me but I was gone | D |
| on my own currents quicksilver thistledown | D |
| Can I be trapped at last in that soft face | E |
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| I stare at you in fear dark brimming eyes | F |
| Why do you watch me with that immoderate plea | G |
| 'Look under these curled lashes recognize | F |
| that you were always here know me be me ' | - |
| Smooth once hermaphrodite shoulders too tenderly | G |
| your long slope runs above those sudden shy | H |
| curves furred with light that spring below your space | E |
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| No I have been betrayed If I had known | D |
| that this girl waited between a year and a year | I |
| I'd not have chosen her bough to dance upon | D |
| Betrayed by that little darkness here and here | J |
| this swelling softness and that frightened stare | K |
| from eyes I will not answer shut out here | J |
| from my own self by its new body's grace | E |
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| for I am betrayed by someone lovely Yes | L |
| I see you are lovely hateful naked girl | M |
| Your lips in the mirror tremble as I refuse | N |
| to know or claim you Let me go let me be gone | D |
| You are half of some other who may never come | O |
| Why should I tend you You are not my own | D |
| you seek that other he will be your home | P |
| - | |
| Yet I pity your eyes in the mirror misted with tears | Q |
| I lean to your kiss I must serve you I will obey | R |
| Some day we may love I may miss your going some day | R |
| though I shall always resent your dumb and fruitful years | S |
| Your lovers shall learn better and bitterly too | T |
| if their arrogance dares to think I am part of you | T |
Judith Wright
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