Polarities Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFFGFHIJJ| SOMETIMES she is like sherry like the sun through a vessel of glass | A |
| Like light through an oriel window in a room of yellow wood | B |
| Sometimes she is the colour of lions of sand in the fire of noon | C |
| Sometimes as bruised with shadows as the afternoon | C |
| Sometimes she moves like rivers sometimes like trees | D |
| Or tranced and fixed like South Pole silences | E |
| Sometimes she is beauty sometimes fury sometimes neither | F |
| Sometimes nothing drained of meaning null as water | F |
| Sometimes when she makes pea soup or plays me Schumann | G |
| I love her one way sometimes I love her another | F |
| More disturbing way when she opens her mouth in the dark | H |
| Sometimes I like her with camellias sometimes with a parsley stalk | I |
| Sometimes I like her swimming in a mirror on the wall | J |
| Sometimes I don't like her at all | J |
Kenneth Slessor
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