Point Shirley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGA HIJIKLLL MNLOLPLQ LLRLSLSL LLSLTLSL SUVWVXYS| From Water Tower Hill to the brick prison | A |
| The shingle booms bickering under | B |
| The sea's collapse | C |
| Snowcakes break and welter This year | D |
| The gritted wave leaps | E |
| The seawall and drops onto a bier | F |
| Of quahog chips | G |
| Leaving a salty mash of ice to whiten | A |
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| In my grandmother's sand yard She is dead | H |
| Whose laundry snapped and froze here who | I |
| Kept house against | J |
| What the tish rutted sea could do | I |
| Squall waves once danced | K |
| Ship timbers in through the cellar window | L |
| A thresh tailed lanced | L |
| Shark littered in the geranium bed | L |
| - | |
| Such collusion of mulish elements | M |
| She wore her broom straws to the nub | N |
| Twenty years out | L |
| Of her hand the house still hugs in each drab | O |
| Stucco socket | L |
| The purple egg stones from Great Head's knob | P |
| To the filled in Gut | L |
| The sea in its cold gizzard ground those rounds | Q |
| - | |
| Nobody wintering now behind | L |
| The planked up windows where she set | L |
| Her wheat loaves | R |
| And apple cakes to cool What is it | L |
| Survives grieves | S |
| So battered obstinate spit | L |
| Of gravel The waves' | S |
| Spewed relics clicker masses in the wind | L |
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| Grey waves the stub necked eiders ride | L |
| A labor of love and that labor lost | L |
| Steadily the sea | S |
| Eats at Point Shirley She died blessed | L |
| And I come by | T |
| Bones only bones pawed and tossed | L |
| A dog faced sea | S |
| The sun sinks under Boston bloody red | L |
| - | |
| I would get from these dry papped stones | S |
| The milk your love instilled in them | U |
| The black ducks dive | V |
| And though your graciousness might stream | W |
| And I contrive | V |
| Grandmother stones are nothing of home | X |
| To that spumiest dove | Y |
| Against both bar and tower the black sea runs | S |
Sylvia Plath
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