Possessions Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAA DEFGFFHIJKHLMN OAPA QGRSIT| They spent my life plotting against me | A |
| With nothing to do but cultivate themselves | B |
| but to be there aligning their shadows | C |
| they were planning to undo me | A |
| wanting to own me completely | A |
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| They have marched through the rooms | D |
| their presences litter the surfaces | E |
| close at my elbow calling attention | F |
| When I sleep they begin with their meetings | G |
| when I leave home they hold a convention | F |
| The minutes the notes the chairman | F |
| calls order the lamps signal aye When I die | H |
| they'll start in on another | I |
| easy at first learning his ways | J |
| Now they're gone taken from me good luck | K |
| If I kept them I'd never be free I'd die | H |
| and have to begin picking everything up | L |
| all the waste paper baby teeth beards | M |
| I'd have to go back for the fingernails | N |
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| So I'm shut of them all the gossip and malice | O |
| the tables the chairs with their jokes on me | A |
| All the prying the scandals The telephone | P |
| stored it all up the books lied to me | A |
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| That's why I came here bringing nothing | Q |
| There was nothing to do but leave things | G |
| I saved only a few smells of tobacco | R |
| and blankets a dream of a waterfall | S |
| a length of ribbon my name my number | I |
| the holes in my suitcase | T |
Ken Smith
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