The Landlady Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCA ADEA FGHIJ KLMN ODPQAP AAABRS ATUV R| This is the lair of the landlady | A |
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| She is | B |
| a raw voice | C |
| loose in the rooms beneath me | A |
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| the continuous henyard | A |
| squabble going on below | D |
| thought in this house like | E |
| the bicker of blood through the head | A |
| - | |
| She is everywhere intrusive as the smells | F |
| that bulge in under my doorsill | G |
| she presides over my | H |
| meagre eating generates | I |
| the light for eyestrain | J |
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| From her I rent my time | K |
| she slams | L |
| my days like doors | M |
| Nothing is mine | N |
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| and when I dream images | O |
| of daring escapes through the snow | D |
| I find myself walking | P |
| always over a vast face | Q |
| which is the land | A |
| lady's and wake up shouting | P |
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| She is a bulk a knot | A |
| swollen in a space Though I have tried | A |
| to find some way around | A |
| her my senses | B |
| are cluttered by perception | R |
| and can't see through her | S |
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| She stands there a raucous fact | A |
| blocking my way | T |
| immutable a slab | U |
| of what is real | V |
| - | |
| solid as bacon | R |
Margaret Atwood
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