The Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDE FGC HC IJG K LM NGO GPQ CRC ST C GUV WUM XTheir 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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