Medallion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHI JKL MGN GOG OPO QRS TUV| By the gate with star and moon | A |
| Worked into the peeled orange wood | B |
| The bronze snake lay in the sun | C |
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| Inert as a shoelace dead | D |
| But pliable still his jaw | E |
| Unhinged and his grin crooked | F |
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| Tongue a rose colored arrow | G |
| Over my hand I hung him | H |
| His little vermilion eye | I |
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| Ignited with a glassed flame | J |
| As I turned him in the light | K |
| When I split a rock one time | L |
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| The garnet bits burned like that | M |
| Bust dulled his back to ocher | G |
| The way sun ruins a trout | N |
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| Yet his belly kept its fire | G |
| Going under the chainmail | O |
| The old jewels smoldering there | G |
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| In each opaque belly scale | O |
| Sunset looked at through milk glass | P |
| And I saw white maggots coil | O |
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| Thin as pins in the dark bruise | Q |
| Where innards bulged as if | R |
| He were digesting a mouse | S |
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| Knifelike he was chaste enough | T |
| Pure death's metal The yard man's | U |
| Flung brick perfected his laugh | V |
Sylvia Plath
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