The Stone Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOLPQRS TU VFond husband ancient settler in the mind | A |
Old fat spider weaving webs of bewilderment | B |
Be kind You turn me into a bird of stone a granite | C |
Dove you build round me a shabby room | D |
And stroke my pitted face absent mindedly while | E |
You read With loud talk you bruise my pre morning sleep | F |
You stick a finger into my dreaming eye And | G |
Yet on daydreams strong men cast their shadows they sink | H |
Like white suns in the swell of my Dravidian blood | I |
Secretly flow the drains beneath sacred cities | J |
When you leave I drive my blue battered car | K |
Along the bluer sea I run up the forty | L |
Noisy steps to knock at another's door | M |
Though peep holes the neighbours watch | N |
they watch me come | O |
And go like rain Ask me everybody ask me | L |
What he sees in me ask me why he is called a lion | P |
A libertine ask me why his hand sways like a hooded snake | Q |
Before it clasps my pubis Ask me why like | R |
A great tree felled he slumps against my breasts | S |
And sleeps Ask me why life is short and love is | T |
Shorter still ask me what is bliss and what its price | U |
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From The Old Playhouse and Other Poems | V |
Kamala Das
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