The Killer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEAF GHBH IJKJ LMNM OPQP ROST| The day was clear as fire | A |
| the birds sang frail as glass | B |
| when thirsty I came to the creek | C |
| and fell by its side in the grass | B |
| - | |
| My breast on the bright moss | D |
| and shower embroidered weeks | E |
| my lips to the live water | A |
| I saw him turn in the reeds | F |
| - | |
| Black horror sprang from the dark | G |
| in a violent birth | H |
| and through its cloth of grass | B |
| I felt the clutch of earth | H |
| - | |
| O beat him into the ground | I |
| O strike him till he dies | J |
| or else your life itself | K |
| drains through those colourless eyes | J |
| - | |
| I struck again and again | L |
| Slender in black and red | M |
| he lies and his icy glance | N |
| turns outward clear and dead | M |
| - | |
| But nimble my enemy | O |
| as water is or wind | P |
| He has slipped from his death aside | Q |
| and vanished into my mind | P |
| - | |
| He has vanished whence he came | R |
| my nimble enemy | O |
| and the ants come out to the snake | S |
| and drink at his shallow eye | T |
Judith Wright
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