That The Soul May Wax Plump Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFDGHIIHJC KLMNKDOPQRSLQD| My dumpy little mother on the undertaker's slab | A |
| had a mannequin's grace From chin to foot | B |
| the sheet outlined her thin and tall Her face | C |
| uptilted bloodless smooth had a long smile | D |
| Her head rested on a block under her nape | E |
| her neck was long her hair waved upswept But later | F |
| at quot the viewing quot sunk in the casket in pink tulle | D |
| an expensive present that might spoil dressed | G |
| in Eden's green apron organdy bonnet on | H |
| she shrank grew short again and yellow Who | I |
| put the gold rimmed glasses on her shut face who | I |
| laid her left hand with the wedding ring on | H |
| her stomach that really didn't seem to be there | J |
| under the fake lace | C |
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| Mother's work before she died was self purification | K |
| a regimen of near starvation to be worthy to go | L |
| to Our Father Whom she confused or more aptly fused | M |
| with our father in Heaven long since She believed | N |
| in evacuation an often and fierce purgation | K |
| meant to teach the body to be hollow that the soul | D |
| may wax plump At the moment of her death the wind | O |
| rushed out from all her pipes at once Throat and rectum | P |
| sang together a galvanic spasm hiss of ecstasy | Q |
| Then a flat collapse Legs and arms flung wide | R |
| like that female Spanish saint slung by the ankles | S |
| to a cross her mouth stayed open in a dark O So | L |
| her vigorous soul whizzed free On the undertaker's slab she | Q |
| lay youthful cool triumphant with a long smile | D |
May Swenson
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