Little Lion Face Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DEED FGHF IJBI KLLM NOPQ RSTN UVWU SMJS LXXL| Little lion face | A |
| I stopped to pick | B |
| among the mass of thick | B |
| succulent blooms the twice | C |
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| streaked flanges of your silk | D |
| sunwheel relaxed in wide | E |
| dilation I brought inside | E |
| placed in a vase Milk | D |
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| of your shaggy stem | F |
| sticky on my fingers and | G |
| your barbs hooked to my hand | H |
| sudden stings from them | F |
| - | |
| were sweet Now I'm bold | I |
| to touch your swollen neck | J |
| put careful lips to slick | B |
| petals snuff up gold | I |
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| pollen in your navel cup | K |
| Still fresh before night | L |
| I leave you dawn's appetite | L |
| to renew our glide and suck | M |
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| An hour ahead of sun | N |
| I come to find you You're | O |
| twisted shut as a burr | P |
| neck drooped unconscious | Q |
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| an inert limp bundle | R |
| a furled cocoon your | S |
| sun streaked aureole | T |
| eclipsed and dun | N |
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| Strange feral flower asleep | U |
| with flame ruff wilted | V |
| all magic halted | W |
| a drink I pour steep | U |
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| in the glass for your | S |
| undulant stem to suck | M |
| Oh lift your young neck | J |
| open and expand to your | S |
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| lover hot light | L |
| Gold corona widen to sky | X |
| I hold you lion in my eye | X |
| sunup until night | L |
May Swenson
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