Postcards Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJ KLMNOHPQRSTUVWXVO HEYZA2B2SOZC2OD2LE2F 2| I'm thinking about you What else can I say | A |
| The palm trees on the reverse | B |
| are a delusion so is the pink sand | C |
| What we have are the usual | D |
| fractured coke bottles and the smell | E |
| of backed up drains too sweet | F |
| like a mango on the verge | G |
| of rot which we have also | H |
| The air clear sweat mosquitoes | I |
| their tracks birds elusive | J |
| - | |
| Time comes in waves here a sickness one | K |
| day after the other rolling on | L |
| I move up it's called | M |
| awake then down into the uneasy | N |
| nights but never | O |
| forward The roosters crow | H |
| for hours before dawn and a prodded | P |
| child howls howls | Q |
| on the pocked road to school | R |
| In the hold with the baggage | S |
| there are two prisoners | T |
| their heads shaved by bayonets ten crates | U |
| of queasy chicks Each spring | V |
| there's race of cripples from the store | W |
| to the church This is the sort of junk | X |
| I carry with me and a clipping | V |
| about democracy from the local paper | O |
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| Outside the window | H |
| they're building the damn hotel | E |
| nail by nail someone's | Y |
| crumbling dream A universe that includes you | Z |
| can't be all bad but | A2 |
| does it At this distance | B2 |
| you're a mirage a glossy image | S |
| fixed in the posture | O |
| of the last time I saw you | Z |
| Turn you over there's the place | C2 |
| for the address Wish you were | O |
| here Love comes | D2 |
| in waves like the ocean a sickness which goes on | L |
| on a hollow cave | E2 |
| in the head filling pounding a kicked ear | F2 |
Margaret Atwood
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