The Untrustworthy Speaker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CBD EFG HIJK LLMNO PMQR HNSTU DVW| Don't listen to me my heart's been broken | A |
| I don't see anything objectively | B |
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| I know myself I've learned to hear like a psychiatrist | C |
| When I speak passionately | B |
| That's when I'm least to be trusted | D |
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| It's very sad really all my life I've been praised | E |
| For my intelligence my powers of language of insight | F |
| In the end they're wasted | G |
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| I never see myself | H |
| Standing on the front steps Holding my sisters hand | I |
| That's why I can't account | J |
| For the bruises on her arm where the sleeve ends | K |
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| In my own mind I'm invisible that's why I'm dangerous | L |
| People like me who seem selfless | L |
| We're the cripples the liars | M |
| We're the ones who should be factored out | N |
| In the interest of truth | O |
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| When I'm quiet that's when the truth emerges | P |
| A clear sky the clouds like white fibers | M |
| Underneath a little gray house The azaleas | Q |
| Red and bright pink | R |
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| If you want the truth you have to close yourself | H |
| To the older sister block her out | N |
| When I living thing is hurt like that | S |
| In its deepest workings | T |
| All function is altered | U |
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| That's why I'm not to be trusted | D |
| Because a wound to the heart | V |
| Is also a wound to the mind | W |
Louise Gluck
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