The Testing Of The Sirens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGHIJKLCEFMNFO PFNQRSTCUVWSXFVVYOFZ A2FESB2C2| The night dark cloaked like a procuress brought | A |
| him to me willing light as a shadow | B |
| speaking words of love | C |
| in some tender language I do not know | B |
| With the crows came the morning and my limbs | D |
| warm of love were once again so lonely | E |
| At my doorstep I saw a pock marked face | F |
| a friendly smile and | G |
| a rolleiflex We will go for a drive | H |
| he said Or go see the lakes I have | I |
| washed my face with soap and water brushed | J |
| my hair a dozen | K |
| times draped myself in six yards of printed | L |
| voile Ah does it still show my night of love | C |
| You look pale he said Not pale not really | E |
| pale It's the lipstick's | F |
| anemia Out in the street we heard | M |
| The sirens go and I paused in talk to | N |
| weave their wail with the sound of his mirthless | F |
| laughter He said | O |
| they are testing the sirens today I am | P |
| happy He really was lavish with words | F |
| I am happy just being with you | N |
| But you you love another | Q |
| I know he said perhaps a handsome man | R |
| a young and handsome man Not young | S |
| not handsome I thought just a filthy snob | T |
| It's a one sided love | C |
| I said What can I do for yoou I smiled | U |
| A smile is such a detached thing I wear | V |
| it like a flower Near the lake a pregnant | W |
| girl bared her dusky | S |
| breasts and washed them sullenly On the old | X |
| cannon stand crows bickered over a piece | F |
| of lizard meat and the white sun was there | V |
| and everywhere | V |
| I want your photo lying down | Y |
| nineteen thirty four guns he said | O |
| against those rusty nineteen thirty four guns | F |
| will you Sure Just arrange my limbs and tell | Z |
| Me when to smile I | A2 |
| shut my eyes but inside eye lids there was | F |
| no more night no more love or peace only | E |
| the white white sun burning burning burning | S |
| Ah why does love come to me like pain | B2 |
| again and again and again | C2 |
Kamala Das
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