The Woman At The Washington Zoo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DEFGGHHFIJKLMNOP QARSTEUVWXSKSQ| The saris go by me from the embassies | A |
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| Cloth from the moon Cloth from another planet | B |
| They look back at the leopard like the leopard | C |
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| And I | D |
| this print of mine that has kept its color | E |
| Alive through so many cleanings this dull null | F |
| Navy I wear to work and wear from work and so | G |
| To my bed so to my grave with no | G |
| Complaints no comment neither from my chief | H |
| The Deputy Chief Assistant nor his chief | H |
| Only I complain this serviceable | F |
| Body that no sunlight dyes no hand suffuses | I |
| But dome shadowed withering among columns | J |
| Wavy beneath fountains small far off shining | K |
| In the eyes of animals these beings trapped | L |
| As I am trapped but not themselves the trap | M |
| Aging but without knowledge of their age | N |
| Kept safe here knowing not of death for death | O |
| Oh bars of my own body open open | P |
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| The world goes by my cage and never sees me | Q |
| And there come not to me as come to these | A |
| The wild beasts sparrows pecking the llamas' grain | R |
| Pigeons settling on the bears' bread buzzards | S |
| Tearing the meat the flies have clouded | T |
| Vulture | E |
| When you come for the white rat that the foxes left | U |
| Take off the red helmet of your head the black | V |
| Wings that have shadowed me and step to me as man | W |
| The wild brother at whose feet the white wolves fawn | X |
| To whose hand of power the great lioness | S |
| Stalks purring | K |
| You know what I was | S |
| You see what I am change me change me | Q |
Randall Jarrell
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