Mangroves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHI JKCL MNOPQRS TUVWXYCZA2B2NC2NCD2| How do you survive | A |
| in the mangrove swamps | B |
| amid the twitchings of foetid water | C |
| lice thick as baby tears | D |
| - | |
| How with all the wallow of thick muck | E |
| making suction noises and the teams in | F |
| relays | G |
| searching nightly with baited hounds | H |
| do you pull free | I |
| - | |
| Your bamboo pole knows every ploy | J |
| but a slender craft ill equipped | K |
| to sparring blows from every quarter | C |
| the undergrowth necessitates | L |
| - | |
| The closeness of the clammy night | M |
| heaved about like so much rotting | N |
| fruit will draw | O |
| the ants devouring like that | P |
| abundance of cold yellow eye | Q |
| the firefly swarms that mock your | R |
| heavy steel machete arm | S |
| - | |
| Across the drift of darkness | T |
| and the insect life | U |
| you bat in swarms | V |
| the ultimate danger is not in the | W |
| cayman giant | X |
| or his reptilian cousin named of | Y |
| copper wire | C |
| the anaconda or even mindless holes | Z |
| thick black | A2 |
| ooze that throttles a victim but | B2 |
| two legged form coming | N |
| searching a spectre on hind quarters | C2 |
| with a bolo knife stepping | N |
| free of that beaded circle the inner | C |
| camp | D2 |
Paul Cameron Brown
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