Crystal Gazer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCBB DEFGFH BIJBK L MNO BPQBQP RSTRUS VDSWXY IZBA2BB2| Gerd sits spindle shaped in her dark tent | A |
| Lean face gone tawn with seasons | B |
| Skin worn down to the knucklebones | B |
| At her tough trade without time's taint | C |
| The burnished ball hangs fire in her hands a lens | B |
| Fusing time's three horizons | B |
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| Two enter to tap her sight a green pair | D |
| Fresh leaved out in vows 'Come tell | E |
| How we shall do together | F |
| Well or ill ' Gerd slants a look at each most dear | G |
| Each to the other fit fiber for stern weather | F |
| Slowly she spins the ball | H |
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| 'I see two stalwart apple trees | B |
| Coupled by branches intertwined | I |
| And springing all about | J |
| Staunch saplings to this house thriving days | B |
| Will bring crop's increase and harvest fruit | K |
| Follow on kind wind ' | - |
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| 'No hardship then ' he asks 'We'll take | L |
| Whatever trial's to come so say true ' | - |
| His bride echoes his word At that | M |
| Gerd whirls the ball ablaze 'Rough storm ' she grunts ' may wreak | N |
| Some havoc on tender limb and yet | O |
| Strengthen that orchard thereby ' | - |
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| Their small price paid these wedded ones | B |
| Walk forth into sun moneyed air quickened | P |
| To savor their span of flourishing | Q |
| Aloof squatting mummy wise Gerd scans | B |
| That clairvoyant quartz which once at her own wishing | Q |
| Exacted her first simple sight for this strict second | P |
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| Then a free gadding hoyden Gerd had craved | R |
| To govern more sight than given to a woman | S |
| By wits alone to foresee her lover's faith | T |
| And their future lot she braved | R |
| Church curse to ken that crooked oath | U |
| Whereby one hires a demon | S |
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| A flash like doomcrack rent night's black | V |
| God's work stood anchored in that glare | D |
| Focusing all time's day suns in one | S |
| So beggar Gerd might aim her look | W |
| At gorgon prospects with power to strike to stone | X |
| Hearts of those who pierced time's core | Y |
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| What Gerd saw then engraved her mind | I |
| Plague pitted as the moon each bud | Z |
| Shriveling to cinders at its source | B |
| Each love blazing blind to its gutted end | A2 |
| And fixed in the crystal center grinning fierce | B |
| Earth's ever green death's head | B2 |
Sylvia Plath
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