Maenad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCD AEFGH IHHJK KLMNK O PHQR| Once I was ordinary | A |
| Sat by my father's bean tree | A |
| Eating the fingers of wisdom | B |
| The birds made milk | C |
| When it thundered I hid under a flat stone | D |
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| The mother of mouths didn't love me | A |
| The old man shrank to a doll | E |
| O I am too big to go backward | F |
| Birdmilk is feathers | G |
| The bean leaves are dumb as hands | H |
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| This month is fit for little | I |
| The dead ripen in the grapeleaves | H |
| A red tongue is among us | H |
| Mother keep out of my barnyard | J |
| I am becoming another | K |
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| Dog head devourer | K |
| Feed me the berries of dark | L |
| The lids won't shut Time | M |
| Unwinds from the great umbilicus of the sun | N |
| Its endless glitter | K |
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| I must swallow it all | O |
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| Lady who are these others in the moon's vat | P |
| Sleepdrunk their limbs at odds | H |
| In this light the blood is black | Q |
| Tell me my name | R |
Sylvia Plath
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