Lullaby Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GDHEIJ KLMNO IPQ ERI| My mother's an expert in one thing | A |
| sending people she loves into the other world | B |
| The little ones the babies these | C |
| she rocks whispering or singing quietly I can't say | D |
| what she did for my father | E |
| whatever it was I'm sure it was right | F |
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| It's the same thing really preparing a person | G |
| for sleep for death The lullabies they all say | D |
| don't be afraid that's how they paraphrase | H |
| the heartbeat of the mother | E |
| So the living grow slowly calm it's only | I |
| the dying who can't who refuse | J |
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| The dying are like tops like gyroscopes | K |
| they spin so rapidly they seem to be still | L |
| Then they fly apart in my mother's arms | M |
| my sister was a cloud of atoms of particles that's the difference | N |
| When a child's asleep it's still whole | O |
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| My mother's seen death she doesn't talk about the soul's integrity | I |
| She's held an infant an old man as by comparison the dark grew | P |
| solid around them finally changing to earth | Q |
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| The soul's like all matter | E |
| why would it stay intact stay faithful to its one form | R |
| when it could be free | I |
Louise Gluck
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