Point Spread Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC BDEAFGHIJKAL MNIAA AOPQHR NASKITU AVMWXYAZPAA MIGA2B2IAB2IC2D2V IE2IVF2G2AIG2O IAAH2YIY| The 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
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