Event Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA ACD EFG HEE IFJ KLM NOE E| How the elements solidify | A |
| The moonlight that chalk cliff | B |
| In whose rift we lie | A |
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| Back to back I hear an owl cry | A |
| From its cold indigo | C |
| Intolerable vowels enter my heart | D |
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| The child in the white crib revolves and sighs | E |
| Opens its mouth now demanding | F |
| His little face is carved in pained red wood | G |
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| Then there are the stars ineradicable hard | H |
| One touch it burns and sickens | E |
| I cannot see your eyes | E |
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| Where apple bloom ices the night | I |
| I walk in a ring | F |
| A groove of old faults deep and bitter | J |
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| Love cannot come here | K |
| A black gap discloses itself | L |
| On the opposite lip | M |
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| A small white soul is waving a small white maggot | N |
| My limbs also have left me | O |
| Who has dismembered us | E |
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| The dark is melting We touch like cripples | E |
Sylvia Plath
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