Skunk Hour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCC EDDFEF GHIGJG DGKGLD MGNGNM DOGPGO QRRSTQ UHGAGH| for Elizabeth Bishop | A |
| - | |
| Nautilus Island's hermit | B |
| heiress still lives through winter in her Spartan cottage | C |
| her sheep still graze above the sea | D |
| Her son's a bishop Her farmer is first selectman in our village | C |
| she's in her dotage | C |
| - | |
| Thirsting for | E |
| the hierarchic privacy | D |
| of Queen Victoria's century | D |
| she buys up all | F |
| the eyesores facing her shore | E |
| and lets them fall | F |
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| The season's ill | G |
| we've lost our summer millionaire | H |
| who seemed to leap from an L L Bean | I |
| catalogue His nine knot yawl | G |
| was auctioned off to lobstermen | J |
| A red fox stain covers Blue Hill | G |
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| And now our fairy | D |
| decorator brightens his shop for fall | G |
| his fishnet's filled with orange cork | K |
| orange his cobbler's bench and awl | G |
| there is no money in his work | L |
| he'd rather marry | D |
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| One dark night | M |
| my Tudor Ford climbed the hill's skull | G |
| I watched for love cars Lights turned down | N |
| they lay together hull to hull | G |
| where the graveyard shelves on the town | N |
| My mind's not right | M |
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| A car radio bleats | D |
| quot Love O careless Love quot I hear | O |
| my ill spirit sob in each blood cell | G |
| as if my hand were at its throat | P |
| I myself am hell | G |
| nobody's here | O |
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| only skunks that search | Q |
| in the moonlight for a bite to eat | R |
| They march on their solves up Main Street | R |
| white stripes moonstruck eyes' red fire | S |
| under the chalk dry and spar spire | T |
| of the Trinitarian Church | Q |
| - | |
| I stand on top | U |
| of our back steps and breathe the rich air | H |
| a mother skunk with her column of kittens swills the garbage pail | G |
| She jabs her wedge head in a cup | A |
| of sour cream drops her ostrich tail | G |
| and will not scare | H |
Robert Lowell
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