Twenty-pound Stone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CC D EF G HI J K C L M NO CP| It nests in the hollow of my pelvis I carry it with both hands as if | A |
| offering my stomach as if it were pulling me forward | B |
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| At night the sun leaks from it it turns cold I sleep with it | C |
| beside my head I breath for it | C |
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| Sometimes I dream of hammers | D |
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| I am hammering it back into sand the sand we melt into glass | E |
| the glass we blow into bottles | F |
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| This stone is fifteen green bottles with nothing inside | G |
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| It never bleeds it never heals it is a soup can left on the back shelf | H |
| the label worn off | I |
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| It is the corner of a house the beginning of a wall | J |
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| At night it changes shape it lies on one side casting jagged shadows | K |
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| It brightens where my tongue touches it | C |
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| Richard's eyes were this color a pale fruit honeydew | L |
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| When I swing it over my head I swear it could lift me | M |
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| If I jump from a bridge it would drag me down the current couldn't | N |
| carry us it has no lungs no pockets of air | O |
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| If I could walk it to the center of a frozen pond amp leave it | C |
| in the spring it would be gone | P |
Nick Flynn
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