Pheasant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCD CEC FGH GAG AIA JKL MMM| You said you would kill it this morning | A |
| Do not kill it It startles me still | B |
| The jut of that odd dark head pacing | A |
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| Through the uncut grass on the elm's hill | B |
| It is something to own a pheasant | C |
| Or just to be visited at all | D |
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| I am not mystical it isn't | C |
| As if I thought it had a spirit | E |
| It is simply in its element | C |
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| That gives it a kingliness a right | F |
| The print of its big foot last winter | G |
| The trail track on the snow in our court | H |
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| The wonder of it in that pallor | G |
| Through crosshatch of sparrow and starling | A |
| Is it its rareness then It is rare | G |
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| But a dozen would be worth having | A |
| A hundred on that hill green and red | I |
| Crossing and recrossing a fine thing | A |
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| It is such a good shape so vivid | J |
| It's a little cornucopia | K |
| It unclaps brown as a leaf and loud | L |
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| Settles in the elm and is easy | M |
| It was sunning in the narcissi | M |
| I trespass stupidly Let be let be | M |
Sylvia Plath
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