Immortality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJGKLMDN OPQRSTUMVWXYK| In Sleeping Beauty's castle | A |
| the clock strikes one hundred years | B |
| and the girl in the tower returns to the world | C |
| So do the servants in the kitchen | D |
| who don't even rub their eyes | E |
| The cook's right hand lifted | F |
| an exact century ago | G |
| completes its downward arc | H |
| to the kitchen boy's left ear | I |
| the boy's tensed vocal cords | J |
| finally let go | G |
| the trapped enduring whimper | K |
| and the fly arrested mid plunge | L |
| above the strawberry pie | M |
| fulfills its abiding mission | D |
| and dives into the sweet red glaze | N |
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| As a child I had a book | O |
| with a picture of that scene | P |
| I was too young to notice | Q |
| how fear persists and how | R |
| the anger that causes fear persists | S |
| that its trajectory can't be changed | T |
| or broken only interrupted | U |
| My attention was on the fly | M |
| that this slight body | V |
| with its transparent wings | W |
| and life span of one human day | X |
| still craved its particular share | Y |
| of sweetness a century later | K |
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billrotecki: who owns the copyright?
how do I get permission to read this once on the radio ?
(there is no money involved)
frankly I think my reading it will increase awareness of lisel and might even increase sales of her books
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