Sabbat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE EFGHIJKEB LFMNFKOOO PPQRSOT UVWXYZA2 OB2C2C2| Picturesque Tituba steeped in Obeah | A |
| in a hairball swoon | B |
| leads a harangue about witches with | C |
| some of Salem's more delicate | D |
| women obedient children | E |
| - | |
| In verdant outcrops of the imagination | E |
| fuelled by a beldame's winter fire | F |
| amid sparks that prance with devils | G |
| thru tempest gloom | H |
| covens are conjured | I |
| so they implicate other pretties | J |
| with raven hair | K |
| arm curled in desperation | E |
| about the moon | B |
| - | |
| With supernatural hands extended | L |
| the sea is a wretch's bitter vinegar | F |
| pounding the little eggshell homes | M |
| where at twilight a dozen village Elders | N |
| with bell and taper | F |
| candlelight and prayer | K |
| bind parchment oaths | O |
| to envisage clandestine pacts sabbats | O |
| obscene sojourns | O |
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| Peculiar cat | P |
| straw hat | P |
| thatch and loft | Q |
| a drop of blood sputtering | R |
| then drawn over piddling flame | S |
| the well intentioned righteous | O |
| demask the pain fed frightened | T |
| - | |
| Gibbet arm's length of braided rope | U |
| gang plank gallow stairs that smirk | V |
| off into Eternity | W |
| a lucky few strangled | X |
| the adamant burned | Y |
| fickle apostates swum | Z |
| on a ducking stool | A2 |
| - | |
| Ice fire hearths | O |
| bonfire sheaths ravishing the strong | B2 |
| carnival veil | C2 |
| along pebble strewn trail | C2 |
Paul Cameron Brown
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