Little Fugue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFBG HIJK LMNO PQRSTBUV WLXK YZA2L RB2C2D2 BKZE2 F2G2KH2 I2J2YQ QKH2H2The yew's black fingers wag | A |
Cold clouds go over | B |
So the deaf and dumb | C |
Signal the blind and are ignored | D |
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I like black statements | E |
The featurelessness of that cloud now | F |
White as an eye all over | B |
The eye of the blind pianist | G |
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At my table on the ship | H |
He felt for his food | I |
His fingers had the noses of weasels | J |
I couldn't stop looking | K |
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He could hear Beethoven | L |
Black yew white cloud | M |
The horrific complications | N |
Finger traps a tumult of keys | O |
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Empty and silly as plates | P |
So the blind smile | Q |
I envy big noises | R |
The yew hedge of the Grosse Fuge | S |
Deafness is something else | T |
Such a dark funnel my father | B |
I see your voice | U |
Black and leafy as in my childhood | V |
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A yew hedge of orders | W |
Gothic and barbarous pure German | L |
Dead men cry from it | X |
I am guilty of nothing | K |
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The yew my Christ then | Y |
Is it not as tortured | Z |
And you during the Great War | A2 |
In the California delicatessen | L |
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Lopping off the sausages | R |
They colour my sleep | B2 |
Red mottled like cut necks | C2 |
There was a silence | D2 |
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Great silence of another order | B |
I was seven I knew nothing | K |
The world occurred | Z |
You had one leg and a Prussian mind | E2 |
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Now similar clouds | F2 |
Are spreading their vacuous sheets | G2 |
Do you say nothing | K |
I am lame in the memory | H2 |
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I remember a blue eye | I2 |
A briefcase of tangerines | J2 |
This was a man then | Y |
Death opened like a black tree blackly | Q |
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I survive the while | Q |
Arranging my morning | K |
These are my fingers this my baby | H2 |
The clouds are a marriage of dress of that pallor | H2 |
Sylvia Plath
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