Flashpoint Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FCFGDHIJK LBCMNOPQ RRSTURVRRWRX| A | |
| The moon has a larder | B |
| and a kitchen | C |
| wears a nightcap | D |
| as Father in the Night Before Christmas | E |
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| The moon hoards pistachios | F |
| marzipan | C |
| commands the shadows | F |
| is mustachioed | G |
| sleeps in a sloop | D |
| at least when I look | H |
| like the boat | I |
| owl and pussycat | J |
| took to sea | K |
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| And on country nights | L |
| in high summer | B |
| fishing nets seem drawn | C |
| about his face | M |
| reveal ribbons of light | N |
| eerie panhandlers grubbing quarters | O |
| a sinister sailor with a sack | P |
| on a pitch black wharf | Q |
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| Between clouds | R |
| leafy barques | R |
| the hinge reflected on the | S |
| thick ashen door | T |
| the moon will pirate | U |
| your senses | R |
| set them adrift | V |
| amidst twilight islands | R |
| in the mind's Outer Hebrides | R |
| where mystery is king | W |
| and the hem of robe you kiss | R |
| is an envelope pilfered | X |
Paul Cameron Brown
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