Mary's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CDE DDF GBH IHH DDJ IKL| The Sunday lamb cracks in its fat | A |
| The fat | A |
| Sacrifices its opacity | B |
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| A window holy gold | C |
| The fire makes it precious | D |
| The same fire | E |
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| Melting the tallow heretics | D |
| Ousting the Jews | D |
| Their thick palls float | F |
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| Over the cicatrix of Poland burnt out | G |
| Germany | B |
| They do not die | H |
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| Grey birds obsess my heart | I |
| Mouth ash ash of eye | H |
| They settle On the high | H |
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| Precipice | D |
| That emptied one man into space | D |
| The ovens glowed like heavens incandescent | J |
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| It is a heart | I |
| This holocaust I walk in | K |
| O golden child the world will kill and eat | L |
Sylvia Plath
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