Fable Of The Mermaid And The Drunks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOKPQRS| All those men were there inside | A |
| when she came in totally naked | B |
| They had been drinking they began to spit | C |
| Newly come from the river she knew nothing | D |
| She was a mermaid who had lost her way | E |
| The insults flowed down her gleaming flesh | F |
| Obscenities drowned her golden breasts | G |
| Not knowing tears she did not weep tears | H |
| Not knowing clothes she did not have clothes | I |
| They blackened her with burnt corks and cigarette stubs | J |
| and rolled around laughing on the tavern floor | K |
| She did not speak because she had no speech | L |
| Her eyes were the colour of distant love | M |
| her twin arms were made of white topaz | N |
| Her lips moved silent in a coral light | O |
| and suddenly she went out by that door | K |
| Entering the river she was cleaned | P |
| shining like a white stone in the rain | Q |
| and without looking back she swam again | R |
| swam towards emptiness swam towards death | S |
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