Woman To Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCD EFGHI JKLLK CMNNM| You who were darkness warmed my flesh | A |
| where out of darkness rose the seed | B |
| Then all a world I made in me | C |
| all the world you hear and see | C |
| hung upon my dreaming blood | D |
| - | |
| There moved the multitudinous stars | E |
| and coloured birds and fishes moved | F |
| There swam the sliding continents | G |
| All time lay rolled in me and sense | H |
| and love that knew not its beloved | I |
| - | |
| O node and focus of the world | J |
| I hold you deep within that well | K |
| you shall escape and not escape | L |
| that mirrors still your sleeping shape | L |
| that nurtures still your crescent cell | K |
| - | |
| I wither and you break from me | C |
| yet though you dance in living light | M |
| I am the earth I am the root | N |
| I am the stem that fed the fruit | N |
| the link that joins you to the night | M |
Judith Wright
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