Green Rock, Winthrop Bay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CDD EFG HIJ KLM NON AAP QRR| No lame excuses can gloss over | A |
| Barge tar clotted at the tide line the wrecked pier | B |
| I should have known better | A |
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| Fifteen years between me and the bay | C |
| Profited memory but did away with the old scenery | D |
| And patched this shoddy | D |
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| Makeshift of a view to quit | E |
| My promise of an idyll The blue's worn out | F |
| It's a rd estate | G |
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| Inimical now The great green rock | H |
| We gave good use as ship and house is black | I |
| With tarry muck | J |
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| And periwinkles shrunk to common | K |
| Size The cries of scavenging gulls sound thin | L |
| In the traffic of planes | M |
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| From Logan Airport opposite | N |
| Gulls circle gray under shadow of a steelier flight | O |
| Loss cancels profit | N |
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| Unless you do this tawdry harbor | A |
| A service and ignore it I go a liar | A |
| Gilding what's eyesore | P |
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| Or must take loophole and blame time | Q |
| For the rock's dwarfed lump for the drabbled scum | R |
| For a churlish welcome | R |
Sylvia Plath
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