Miss Drake Proceeds To Supper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFGHIBJK LMNOCPQRSTUUV| No novice | A |
| In those elaborate rituals | B |
| Which allay the malice | A |
| Of knotted table and crooked chair | C |
| The new woman in the ward | D |
| Wears purple steps carefully | E |
| Among her secret combinations of eggshells | F |
| And breakable hummingbirds | G |
| Footing sallow as a mouse | H |
| Between the cabbage roses | I |
| Which are slowly opening their furred petals | B |
| To devour and drag her down | J |
| Into the carpet's design | K |
| - | |
| With bid quick eyed cocked askew | L |
| She can see in the nick of time | M |
| How perilous needles grain the floorboards | N |
| And outwit their brambled plan | O |
| Now through her ambushed air | C |
| Adazzle with bright shards | P |
| Of broken glass | Q |
| She edges with wary breath | R |
| Fending off jag and tooth | S |
| Until turning sideways | T |
| She lifts one webbed foot after the other | U |
| Into the still sultry weather | U |
| Of the patients' dining room | V |
Sylvia Plath
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