Irkalla's White Caves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DCE AFGHIJ KLMNOPQRSTUVW XYSZWIA2 AWB2JC2KD2E2F2G2H2R CI2BJ2S| I believe that a young woman | A |
| Is standing in a circle of lions | B |
| In the other side of the sky | C |
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| In a little while I must carry her the flowers | D |
| Which only fade here and she will not cry | C |
| If my hands are not very full | E |
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| Fiery antlers toss within the forests of heaven | A |
| And ocean s plaintive towns | F |
| Echo the tread of celestial feet | G |
| O the beautiful eyes stare down | H |
| What have we done that we are bless d | I |
| What have we died that we hasten to God | J |
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| And all the animals are asleep again | K |
| In their separate caves | L |
| Hairy bellies distended with their kill | M |
| Culture blubbering in and out | N |
| Like the breath of a stranded fish | O |
| Crucifixion in wax The test tube messiahs | P |
| Immaculate fornication under the smoking walls | Q |
| Of a dead world | R |
| I dig for my death | S |
| in this thousand watt dungheap | T |
| There isn t even enough clean air | U |
| To die in | V |
| O blood bearded destroyer | W |
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| In other times | X |
| soundless barges float | Y |
| down the rivers of death | S |
| In another heart | Z |
| These crimes may not flower | W |
| What have we done that we are bless d | I |
| What have we damned that we are blinded | A2 |
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| Now with my seven holed head open | A |
| On the air whence comes a fabulous mariner | W |
| To take his place among the spheres | B2 |
| The air which is God | J |
| And the mariner who is sheep I fold | C2 |
| Upon myself like a bird over flames Then | K |
| All my nightbound juices sing Snails | D2 |
| Pop out of unexpected places and the long | E2 |
| light lances of waterbulls plunge | F2 |
| into the green crotch of my native land | G2 |
| Eyes peer out of the seaweed that gently sways | H2 |
| Above the towers and salt gates of a lost world | R |
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| On the other side of the sky | C |
| A young woman is standing | I2 |
| In a circle of lions | B |
| The young woman who is dream | J2 |
| And the lions which are death | S |
Kenneth Patchen
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