The Myth Of Innocence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAE FGHGII JKIKL CM CNO PQR STUVWXY YZ A2BEAB2 BEIC2D2| One summer she goes into the field as usual | A |
| stopping for a bit at the pool where she often | B |
| looks at herself to see | C |
| if she detects any changes She sees | D |
| the same person the horrible mantle | A |
| of daughterliness still clinging to her | E |
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| The sun seems in the water very close | F |
| That's my uncle spying again she thinks | G |
| everything in nature is in some way her relative | H |
| I am never alone she thinks | G |
| turning the thought into a prayer | I |
| Then death appears like the answer to a prayer | I |
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| No one understands anymore | J |
| how beautiful he was But Persephone remembers | K |
| Also that he embraced her right there | I |
| with her uncle watching She remembers | K |
| sunlight flashing on his bare arms | L |
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| This is the last moment she remembers clearly | C |
| Then the dark god bore her away | M |
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| She also remembers less clearly | C |
| the chilling insight that from this moment | N |
| she couldn't live without him again | O |
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| The girl who disappears from the pool | P |
| will never return A woman will return | Q |
| looking for the girl she was | R |
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| She stands by the pool saying from time to time | S |
| I was abducted but it sounds | T |
| wrong to her nothing like what she felt | U |
| Then she says I was not abducted | V |
| Then she says I offered myself I wanted | W |
| to escape my body Even sometimes | X |
| I willed this But ignorance | Y |
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| cannot will knowledge Ignorance | Y |
| wills something imagined which it believes exists | Z |
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| All the different nouns | A2 |
| she says them in rotation | B |
| Death husband god stranger | E |
| Everything sounds so simple so conventional | A |
| I must have been she thinks a simple girl | B2 |
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| She can't remember herself as that person | B |
| but she keeps thinking the pool will remember | E |
| and explain to her the meaning of her prayer | I |
| so she can understand | C2 |
| whether it was answered or not | D2 |
Louise Gluck
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