The Suicide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDCEFGHICJCEJJKLE MJNOCCCPQRPSTUKVWJXY ZA2AB2C2D2E2D2PF2UG2 H2I2EIIJ2K2L2M2JCJCH RCIN2IO2P2Q2J2B2R2LS 2SN2E2JCL2T2L2U2CV2I N2B2RJW2X2T2Y2E2Z2CI CCSA3B3C3D3D3CE3CS2F 3UG3H3II3J3D3CCAZ2JC

Bereft of soulA
My body shall be bareB
Bereft of bodyC
My soul shall be bareB
Which would you rather haveD
O kind seaC
Which is the more deadE
Of the twoF
I throw the bodies outG
I cannot stand their smellH
Only the souls may enterI
The vortex of seaC
Only the souls know how to singJ
At the vortex of the seaC
Your body shall be deadE
Poor thingJ
Dead as driftwood driftingJ
And drifting to the shoreK
Your body shall ride the tideL
Rider slumped deadE
On white war houseM
ChargingJ
Your body shall bruise whiteN
Against the coral reefsO
Your bodyC
Your lonely bodyC
I tell you seaC
I have enough courage to dieP
But not enoughQ
Not enough to disobey himR
Who said Do not dieP
And hurt me that certain wayS
How easy your duties areT
How simpleU
Only roar a hungry roarK
Leao forwardV
And retreatW
You swing and you swingJ
O sea you play a child's gameX
ButY
I must poseZ
I must pretendA2
I must act the roleA
Of happy womanB2
Happy wifeC2
I must keep the right distanceD2
Between me and the lowE2
And I must keep the right distanceD2
Between me and the highP
O sea i am fed upF2
I want to be simpleU
I want to be lovedG2
AndH2
If love is not to be hadI2
I want to be dead just deadE
While I enter deeperI
With joy I discoverI
The sea's hostile coldJ2
Is after all skin deepK2
The sea's inner chambersL2
Are all very warmM2
There must be a sun slumberingJ
At the vortex of the seaC
O sea i am happy swimmingJ
Happy happy happyC
The only movement i know wellH
Is certainly the swimR
It comes naturally to meC
I had a house a MalabarI
And a pale green pondN2
I did all my growing thereI
In the bright summer monthsO2
I swam about and floatedP2
And divided into the cold and greenQ2
I lay speckled green and goldJ2
In all the hours of the sunB2
UntilR2
My grandmother criedL
Darling you must stop this bathing nowS2
You are much too big to playS
Naked in the pondN2
Yes the only movement i really knowE2
Is swimmingJ
It comes naturally to meC
The white man who offersL2
To help me forgetT2
The white man who offersL2
Himself as a stiff drinkU2
Is for meC
To tell the truthV2
Only waterI
Only a pale green pondN2
Glimmering in the sunB2
In him I swimR
All broken with longingJ
In his robust blood i floatW2
Drying off my tearsX2
Yet i never can forgetT2
The only man who hurtsY2
The only one who seems to knowE2
The only way to hurtZ2
Holding you is easyC
Clutching at moving waterI
I tell you seaC
This is easyC
But to hold him for half a dayS
Was a difficult taskA3
It required drinksB3
To hold him downC3
To make him loveD3
But when he did not loveD3
Believe meC
All I could do was to sob like a foolE3
O seaC
You generous cowS2
You and I are big flopsF3
We are too sentimentalU
For our ownG3
GoodH3
Lights are moving on the shoreI
But I shall not returnI3
Sea toss my body backJ3
That he knew how to loveD3
Bereft of bodyC
My soul shall be freeC
Take in my naked soulA
That he knew how to hurtZ2
Only the soul knows how to singJ
At the vortex of the seaC

Kamala Das



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