The Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDE FGC HC IJG K LM NGO GPQ CRC ST C GUV WUM X| Their reward is | A |
| they become innocent again | B |
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| and when they reappear in memory | C |
| death has completely erased | D |
| the blurs given them boundaries They rise | E |
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| and move through their new world with clean | F |
| clear edges My grandmother in particular | G |
| has become buoyant unattached finally | C |
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| from her histories from the trappings | H |
| of family By no means was she | C |
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| a good woman But the dead don't care anymore for that | I |
| Weightless they no longer assume | J |
| responsibility they no longer | G |
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| have bodies Once | K |
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| at the end of August after swimming | L |
| in the muddy pond | M |
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| I'd gone into the living room cool | N |
| as vodka where my grandmother | G |
| sat Greed thins a woman | O |
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| I remember her rings bigger | G |
| than her fingers | P |
| Water ran down my legs | Q |
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| onto the floor becoming slippery | C |
| and my grandmother her breath | R |
| scratchy from cigarettes and blended whiskey | C |
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| leaned into my ear and whispered | S |
| you're an ugly girl Do I have | T |
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| to forgive her My mother tells me | C |
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| no one ever loved her | G |
| so when I see her I see her again in the park | U |
| in her pink tailored suit suede pumps | V |
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| I see her moving among the strange | W |
| gentlemen that have gathered the dark | U |
| powerful men She is still young blonde | M |
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| and most of all she is beyond reach beautiful | X |
Kate Northrop
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