The Suicide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDCEFGHICJCEJJKLE MJNOCCCPQRPSTUKVWJXY ZA2AB2C2D2E2D2PF2UG2 H2I2EIIJ2K2L2M2JCJCH RCIN2IO2P2Q2J2B2R2LS 2SN2E2JCL2T2L2U2CV2I N2B2RJW2X2T2Y2E2Z2CI CCSA3B3C3D3D3CE3CS2F 3UG3H3II3J3D3CCAZ2JCBereft of soul | A |
My body shall be bare | B |
Bereft of body | C |
My soul shall be bare | B |
Which would you rather have | D |
O kind sea | C |
Which is the more dead | E |
Of the two | F |
I throw the bodies out | G |
I cannot stand their smell | H |
Only the souls may enter | I |
The vortex of sea | C |
Only the souls know how to sing | J |
At the vortex of the sea | C |
Your body shall be dead | E |
Poor thing | J |
Dead as driftwood drifting | J |
And drifting to the shore | K |
Your body shall ride the tide | L |
Rider slumped dead | E |
On white war house | M |
Charging | J |
Your body shall bruise white | N |
Against the coral reefs | O |
Your body | C |
Your lonely body | C |
I tell you sea | C |
I have enough courage to die | P |
But not enough | Q |
Not enough to disobey him | R |
Who said Do not die | P |
And hurt me that certain way | S |
How easy your duties are | T |
How simple | U |
Only roar a hungry roar | K |
Leao forward | V |
And retreat | W |
You swing and you swing | J |
O sea you play a child's game | X |
But | Y |
I must pose | Z |
I must pretend | A2 |
I must act the role | A |
Of happy woman | B2 |
Happy wife | C2 |
I must keep the right distance | D2 |
Between me and the low | E2 |
And I must keep the right distance | D2 |
Between me and the high | P |
O sea i am fed up | F2 |
I want to be simple | U |
I want to be loved | G2 |
And | H2 |
If love is not to be had | I2 |
I want to be dead just dead | E |
While I enter deeper | I |
With joy I discover | I |
The sea's hostile cold | J2 |
Is after all skin deep | K2 |
The sea's inner chambers | L2 |
Are all very warm | M2 |
There must be a sun slumbering | J |
At the vortex of the sea | C |
O sea i am happy swimming | J |
Happy happy happy | C |
The only movement i know well | H |
Is certainly the swim | R |
It comes naturally to me | C |
I had a house a Malabar | I |
And a pale green pond | N2 |
I did all my growing there | I |
In the bright summer months | O2 |
I swam about and floated | P2 |
And divided into the cold and green | Q2 |
I lay speckled green and gold | J2 |
In all the hours of the sun | B2 |
Until | R2 |
My grandmother cried | L |
Darling you must stop this bathing now | S2 |
You are much too big to play | S |
Naked in the pond | N2 |
Yes the only movement i really know | E2 |
Is swimming | J |
It comes naturally to me | C |
The white man who offers | L2 |
To help me forget | T2 |
The white man who offers | L2 |
Himself as a stiff drink | U2 |
Is for me | C |
To tell the truth | V2 |
Only water | I |
Only a pale green pond | N2 |
Glimmering in the sun | B2 |
In him I swim | R |
All broken with longing | J |
In his robust blood i float | W2 |
Drying off my tears | X2 |
Yet i never can forget | T2 |
The only man who hurts | Y2 |
The only one who seems to know | E2 |
The only way to hurt | Z2 |
Holding you is easy | C |
Clutching at moving water | I |
I tell you sea | C |
This is easy | C |
But to hold him for half a day | S |
Was a difficult task | A3 |
It required drinks | B3 |
To hold him down | C3 |
To make him love | D3 |
But when he did not love | D3 |
Believe me | C |
All I could do was to sob like a fool | E3 |
O sea | C |
You generous cow | S2 |
You and I are big flops | F3 |
We are too sentimental | U |
For our own | G3 |
Good | H3 |
Lights are moving on the shore | I |
But I shall not return | I3 |
Sea toss my body back | J3 |
That he knew how to love | D3 |
Bereft of body | C |
My soul shall be free | C |
Take in my naked soul | A |
That he knew how to hurt | Z2 |
Only the soul knows how to sing | J |
At the vortex of the sea | C |
Kamala Das
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