Parliament Hill Fields Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC CDEFB BEBBG GBHIJ KLGMG GNOLB BPLBQ QBBRM SGBTB BUVWB| ale as china | A |
| The round sky goes on minding its business | B |
| Your absence is inconspicuous | B |
| Nobody can tell what I lack | C |
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| Gulls have threaded the river's mud bed back | C |
| To this crest of grass Inland they argue | D |
| Settling and stirring like blown paper | E |
| Or the hands of an invalid The wan | F |
| Sun manages to strike such tin glints | B |
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| From the linked ponds that my eyes wince | B |
| And brim the city melts like sugar | E |
| A crocodile of small girls | B |
| Knotting and stopping ill assorted in blue uniforms | B |
| Opens to swallow me I'm a stone a stick | G |
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| One child drops a barrette of pink plastic | G |
| None of them seem to notice | B |
| Their shrill gravelly gossip's funneled off | H |
| Now silence after silence offers itself | I |
| The wind stops my breath like a bandage | J |
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| Southward over Kentish Town an ashen smudge | K |
| Swaddles roof and tree | L |
| It could be a snowfield or a cloudbank | G |
| I suppose it's pointless to think of you at all | M |
| Already your doll grip lets go | G |
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| The tumulus even at noon guards its black shadow | G |
| You know me less constant | N |
| Ghost of a leaf ghost of a bird | O |
| I circle the writhen trees I am too happy | L |
| These faithful dark boughed cypresses | B |
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| Brood rooted in their heaped losses | B |
| Your cry fades like the cry of a gnat | P |
| I lose sight of you on your blind journey | L |
| While the heath grass glitters and the spindling rivulets | B |
| Unspool and spend themselves My mind runs with them | Q |
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| Pooling in heel prints fumbling pebble and stem | Q |
| The day empties its images | B |
| Like a cup or a room The moon's crook whitens | B |
| Thin as the skin seaming a scar | R |
| Now on the nursery wall | M |
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| The blue night plants the little pale blue hill | S |
| In your sister's birthday picture start to glow | G |
| The orange pompons the Egyptian papyrus | B |
| Light up Each rabbit eared | T |
| Blue shrub behind the glass | B |
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| Exhales an indigo nimbus | B |
| A sort of cellophane balloon | U |
| The old dregs the old difficulties take me to wife | V |
| Gulls stiffen to their chill vigil in the drafty half light | W |
| I enter the lit house | B |
Sylvia Plath
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