White China Plates I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH HIJJJDKLMN ODPQHRDSJB DHTUVW XDBHHJJYUZA2B2J| A | |
| The moon hummed like a refrigerator | B |
| light thru shadows | C |
| the solitude of dusk closing in | D |
| black scars visible across | E |
| the moon's face shaped like | F |
| mountainous hands all | G |
| silent the occasional leaf rustling | H |
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| My fork at plate's edge listening | H |
| listening to the haunting one eye | I |
| on the staircase wall white | J |
| as the numb light outside palest night | J |
| Caught off guard the musty settee | J |
| and armchair acting as hallucinogen | D |
| to the nostril the calendar of events | K |
| playing ghostly tag with sheer curtains | L |
| hovering shroud like on the family Bible | M |
| big and brown as the Lord's foot stool | N |
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| The unravelling tale slowly much as | O |
| thick yarn with a kitten | D |
| batting it one event at a time | P |
| in sepulchre movement down a | Q |
| linoleum floor Two twins burning | H |
| fever scalded in frigid water only | R |
| shock setting in dying to join | D |
| the black creek water from which | S |
| her unwilling buckets borrowed | J |
| this liquid crucifixion and bitter vinegar | B |
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| Or the drive house door silent in precision | D |
| unseen hands before marauding | H |
| hoofs in unison dark from windows' edge | T |
| to better hear little poke of | U |
| sleigh bells or harness rattling grim | V |
| with a sick man's cough | W |
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| This admission of spectral animals | X |
| somehow more unsettling than | D |
| the young woman next combing her | B |
| hair at the foot of the bed scaring | H |
| the daylights out of me picturing | H |
| the whereabouts of stockinged feet | J |
| these tricksters from another world | J |
| drum and kettle corps gypsy fife | Y |
| with harbinger doom to rasp of | U |
| falling broom | Z |
| old and yellow silky straw witch's hair | A2 |
| and a cat dark | B2 |
| as the Devil's very bread | J |
Paul Cameron Brown
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