Dark Wood, Dark Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GFF HIJ KLM NFJ OLP IFF| This wood burns a dark | A |
| Incense Pale moss drips | B |
| In elbow scarves beards | C |
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| From the archaic | D |
| Bones of the great trees | E |
| Blue mists move over | F |
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| A lake thick with fish | G |
| Snails scroll the border | F |
| Of the glazed water | F |
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| With coils of ram's horn | H |
| Out in the open | I |
| Down there the late year | J |
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| Hammers her rare and | K |
| Various metals | L |
| Old pewter roots twist | M |
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| Up from the jet backed | N |
| Mirror of water | F |
| And while the air's clear | J |
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| Hourglass sifts a | O |
| Drift of goldpieces | L |
| Bright waterlights are | P |
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| Sliding their quoits one | I |
| After the other | F |
| Down boles of the fir | F |
Sylvia Plath
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