On The Difficulty Of Conjuring Up A Dryad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDE FGHIJKL MNOPQQOO ABBARRSS TGGUVRW| Ravening through the persistent bric brac | A |
| Of blunt pencils rose sprigged coffee cup | B |
| Postage stamps stacked books' clamor and yawp | B |
| Neighborhood cockcrow all nature's prodigal backtalk | A |
| The vaunting mind | C |
| Snubs impromptu spiels of wind | C |
| And wrestles to impose | D |
| Its own order on what is | E |
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| With my fantasy alone ' brags the importunate head | F |
| Arrogant among rook tongued spaces | G |
| Sheep greens finned falls I shall compose a crisis | H |
| To stun sky black out drive gibbering mad | I |
| Trout cock ram | J |
| That bulk so calm | K |
| On my jealous stare | L |
| Self sufficient as they are ' | - |
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| But no hocus pocus of green angels | M |
| Damasks with dazzle the threadbare eye | N |
| My trouble doctor is I see a tree | O |
| And that damn scrupulous tree won't practice wiles | P |
| To beguile sight | Q |
| E g by cant of light | Q |
| Concoct a Daphne | O |
| My tree stays tree | O |
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| However I wrench obstinate bark and trunk | A |
| To my sweet will no luminous shape | B |
| Steps out radiant in limb eye lip | B |
| To hoodwink the honest earth which pointblank | A |
| Spurns such fiction | R |
| As nymphs cold vision | R |
| Will have no counterfeit | S |
| Palmed off on it | S |
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| No doubt now in dream propertied fall some moon eyed | T |
| Star lucky sleight of hand man watches | G |
| My jilting lady squander coin gold leaf stock ditches | G |
| And the opulent air go studded with seed | U |
| While this beggared brain | V |
| Hatches no fortune | R |
| But from leaf from grass | W |
| Thieves what it has ' | - |
Sylvia Plath
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