Family Reunion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEEDFFGG HIJIKLLMNNOO PPQQR| Outside in the street I hear | A |
| A car door slam voices coming near | B |
| Incoherent scraps of talk | C |
| And high heels clicking up the walk | C |
| The doorbell rends the noonday heat | D |
| With copper claws | E |
| A second's pause | E |
| The dull drums of my pulses beat | D |
| Against a silence wearing thin | F |
| The door now opens from within | F |
| Oh hear the clash of people meeting | G |
| The laughter and the screams of greeting | G |
| - | |
| Fat always and out of breath | H |
| A greasy smack on every cheek | I |
| From Aunt Elizabeth | J |
| There that's the pink pleased squeak | I |
| Of Cousin Jane out spinster with | K |
| The faded eyes | L |
| And hands like nervous butterflies | L |
| While rough as splintered wood | M |
| Across them all | N |
| Rasps the jarring baritone of Uncle Paul | N |
| The youngest nephew gives a fretful whine | O |
| And drools at the reception line | O |
| - | |
| Like a diver on a lofty spar of land | P |
| Atop the flight of stairs I stand | P |
| A whirlpool leers at me | Q |
| I cast off my identity | Q |
| And make the fatal plunge | R |
Sylvia Plath
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