Point Spread Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC BDEAFGHIJKAL MNIAA AOPQHR NASKITU AVMWXYAZPAA MIGA2B2IAB2IC2D2V IE2IVF2G2AIG2O IAAH2YIYThe skull in the box is that of Cornelius A Burleigh the first man to be hanged in London Ontario August The public hanging attracted an audience of over when the village of London numbered only a few hundred Because the rope broke he was hanged twice The top of the skull was taken on a world tour by Dr O S Fowler a phrenologist | A |
This part of the skull was presented to the Harris family | B |
Eldon House brochure | C |
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Off memory | B |
a dare | D |
the grave man | E |
coming to a bitter end | A |
Burleigh top of his | F |
skull reminiscent of a laundry cup | G |
or toothpaste cap separated from | H |
its yellowing rightful owner | I |
No jaws of life here | J |
rather vengeance beyond death | K |
shellac varnish twist shoved | A |
to the withering bone | L |
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Phrenology | M |
sinister fin de siecle fingering | N |
of the intellect's character | I |
through guru dimensions of the head | A |
pseudo savant skulduggery clairvoyant | A |
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Thimble full thinker sleight of hand | A |
smoke'n mirror trophy hunters | O |
boisterous crowd in a | P |
hanging mood Coins | Q |
flip on the outcome | H |
while town drunks reel | R |
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The village idiot getting | N |
into the swing of things Point spread | A |
across the yawn | S |
of death | K |
brittle behaviour | I |
the sharp edge of beetles | T |
clicking in the dark | U |
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And I thought | A |
of institutionalized evil | V |
rabid passion for revenge | M |
pursued beyond the final resting place | W |
most private skeletal remains | X |
held up as curios Medieval burning of a heretic's bones | Y |
manure pile for those decried damned | A |
the cross roads | Z |
drive your cart over the | P |
bones of the dead | A |
the remembered suicide's end | A |
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Not so strange | M |
given human nature | I |
Lord Byron's silver drinking cup | G |
runaway Ethiopian slave | A2 |
twisted paean to romance | B2 |
or Hand of Glory | I |
corpse fresh from the gibbet | A |
famed forges of France | B2 |
Hair strands as in under | I |
a magnifying glass then | C2 |
shards of clothing clods of earth | D2 |
covering a shovel | V |
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The autopsy necromancy | I |
Nazi intrigue | E2 |
playing polo with your | I |
opponent's skull | V |
Carl Sagan's Broca's Brain | F2 |
red bearded decapitation | G2 |
floating in a cloud of formaldehyde | A |
sale of skeletons white slavery | I |
filthy lucre all in one utilitarian | G2 |
lust for cadavers | O |
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Robber birds pinioning their prey | I |
Mania to collect | A |
mania to re collect | A |
shadow boxing logic | H2 |
rattle his bones | Y |
he's only a pauper | I |
whom nobody owns | Y |
Paul Cameron Brown
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