Gulliver Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHG IJG KLM GMM NOM DDM| Over your body the clouds go | A |
| High high and icily | B |
| And a little flat as if they | C |
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| Floated on a glass that was invisible | D |
| Unlike swans | E |
| Having no reflections | F |
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| Unlike you | G |
| With no strings attached | H |
| All cool all blue Unlike you | G |
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| You there on your back | I |
| Eyes to the sky | J |
| The spider men have caught you | G |
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| Winding and twining their petty fetters | K |
| Their bribes | L |
| So many silks | M |
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| How they hate you | G |
| They converse in the valley of your fingers they are inchworms | M |
| They would have you sleep in their cabinets | M |
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| This toe and that toe a relic | N |
| Step off | O |
| Step off seven leagues like those distances | M |
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| That revolve in Crivelli untouchable | D |
| Let this eye be an eagle | D |
| The shadow of his lip an abyss | M |
Sylvia Plath
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W.K. Seely: A "t" is lmissing. Your final line, "The shadow of his lip, an abyss." is incorrect. The line is supposed to be "The shadow of this lip, an abyss.
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