All The Dead Dears Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADE DFGDHI AJBAKL MDBFND OPQAQR DAADSA| Rigged poker stiff on her back | A |
| With a granite grin | B |
| This antique museum cased lady | C |
| Lies companioned by the gimcrack | A |
| Relics of a mouse and a shrew | D |
| That battened for a day on her ankle bone | E |
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| These three unmasked now bear | D |
| Dry witness | F |
| To the gross eating game | G |
| We'd wink at if we didn't hear | D |
| Stars grinding crumb by crumb | H |
| Our own grist down to its bony face | I |
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| How they grip us through think and thick | A |
| These barnacle dead | J |
| This lady here's no kin | B |
| Of mine yet kin she is she'll suck | A |
| Blood and whistle my narrow clean | K |
| To prove it As I think now of her hand | L |
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| From the mercury backed glass | M |
| Mother grandmother greatgrandmother | D |
| Reach hag hands to haul me in | B |
| And an image looms under the fishpond surface | F |
| Where the daft father went down | N |
| With orange duck feet winnowing this hair | D |
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| All the long gone darlings They | O |
| Get back though soon | P |
| Soon be it by wakes weddings | Q |
| Childbirths or a family barbecue | A |
| Any touch taste tang's | Q |
| Fit for those outlaws to ride home on | R |
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| And to sanctuary usurping the armchair | D |
| Between tick | A |
| And tack of the clock until we go | A |
| Each skulled and crossboned Gulliver | D |
| Riddled with ghosts to lie | S |
| Deadlocked with them taking roots as cradles rock | A |
Sylvia Plath
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