Fish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL MINO PQPR STUV WXYZ A2FG B2IC2D2 E2QCF2| The cop holds me up like a fish | A |
| he feels the huge bones | B |
| surrounding my eyes | C |
| and he runs a thumb under them | D |
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| lifting my eyelids | E |
| as if they were | F |
| envelopes filled with the night | G |
| Now he turns | H |
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| my head back and forth gently | I |
| until I'm so tame and still | J |
| I could be a tiny plastic | K |
| skull left on the | L |
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| dashboard of a junked car | M |
| By now he's so sure of me | I |
| he chews gum | N |
| and drops his flashlight to his side | O |
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| he could be cleaning a trout | P |
| while the pines rise into the darkness | Q |
| though tonight trout | P |
| are freezing into bits of stars | R |
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| under the ice When he lets me go | S |
| I feel numb I feel like | T |
| a fish burned by his touch and turn | U |
| and slip into the cold | V |
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| night rippling with neons | W |
| and the razor blades | X |
| of the poor | Y |
| and the torn mouths on posters | Z |
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| Once I thought even through this | A2 |
| I could go quietly as a star turning over and over | F |
| in the deep truce of its light | G |
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| Now I must | B2 |
| go on repeating the last filthy | I |
| words on the lips | C2 |
| of this shunken head | D2 |
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| shining out of its death in the moon | E2 |
| until trout surface | Q |
| with their petrified round eyes | C |
| and the stars begin moving | F2 |
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