Preparing The Body Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEFG HIJK LMIN OPQR STUC| Sometimes it only took a single word | A |
| just a look if they had drunk enough | B |
| A hawkbill knife would flash sometimes a gun | C |
| The doctor closed their eyes and it was done | C |
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| That's when they'd come for me so I would walk | D |
| until I found some men out in a yard | E |
| smoking cigarettes looking at the ground | F |
| the women in the house with the dead man's wife | G |
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| They'd have him laid out on a cooling board | H |
| looking like he'd passed out drunk but then | I |
| you saw the shirt dyed crimson with his blood | J |
| a face as white as August cotton bolls | K |
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| We'd strip the body first The younger girls | L |
| who hadn't known a man were curious | M |
| They might giggle childish as the men | I |
| who'd brought us here with their little boy games | N |
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| As soon as I could get him shaved I'd leave | O |
| and wouldn't come back until a few weeks passed | P |
| That's when she'd need the hugs the sugared words | Q |
| some extra help with supper and the kids | R |
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| By then she'd have an inkling not so much | S |
| of what had happened but what was to come | T |
| By then she'd know that she would grow old young | U |
| By then she'd know her man was the lucky one | C |
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