Doomsday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBCB BCB BCB BCB BCBB| Doomsday | A |
| The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans | B |
| Atop the broken universal clock | C |
| The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens | B |
| Out painted stages fall apart by scenes | B |
| While all the actors halt in mortal shock | C |
| The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans | B |
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| Streets crack through in havoc split ravines | B |
| As the doomstruck city crumbles block by block | C |
| The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens | B |
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| Fractured glass flies down in smithereens | B |
| Our lucky relics have been put in hock | C |
| The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans | B |
| - | |
| The monkey's wrench has blasted all machines | B |
| We never thought to hear the holy cock | C |
| The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens | B |
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| Too late to ask if end was worth the means | B |
| Too late to calculate the toppling stock | C |
| The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans | B |
| The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens | B |
Sylvia Plath
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