Child's Park Stones Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC EFGFG HIJIK LMNOL PCQCR SFTFU| In sunless air under pines | A |
| Green to the point of blackness some | B |
| Founding father set these lobed warped stones | C |
| To loom in the leaf filtered gloom | D |
| Black as the charred knuckle bones | C |
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| Of a giant or extinct | E |
| Animal come from another | F |
| Age another planet surely Flanked | G |
| By the orange and fuchsia bonfire | F |
| Of azaleas sacrosanct | G |
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| These stones guard a dark repose | H |
| And keep their shapes intact while sun | I |
| Alters shadows of rose and iris | J |
| Long short long in the lit garden | I |
| And kindles a day's end blaze | K |
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| Colored to dull the pigment | L |
| Of azaleas yet burnt out | M |
| Quick as they To follow the light's tint | N |
| And intensity by midnight | O |
| By noon and throughout the brunt | L |
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| Of various weathers is | P |
| To know the still heart of the stones | C |
| Stones that take the whole summer to lose | Q |
| Their dream of the winter's cold stones | C |
| Warming at core only as | R |
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| Frost forms No man's crowbar could | S |
| Uproot them their beards are ever | F |
| Green Nor do they once in a hundred | T |
| Years go down to drink the river | F |
| No thirst disturbs a stone's bed | U |
Sylvia Plath
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