The Stone Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOLPQRS TU V| Fond 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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