Private Ground Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKL LLMNOP QRSLTU| First frost and I walk among the rose fruit the marble toes | A |
| Of the Greek beauties you brought | B |
| Off Europe's relic heap | C |
| To sweeten your neck of the New York woods | D |
| Soon each white lady will be boarded up | E |
| Against the crackling climate | F |
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| All morning with smoking breath the handyman | G |
| Has been draining the goldfish ponds | H |
| They collapse like lungs the escaped water | I |
| Threading back filament by filament to the pure | J |
| Platonic table where it lives The baby carp | K |
| Litter the mud like orangepeel | L |
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| Eleven weeks and I know your estate so well | L |
| I need hardly go out at all | L |
| A superhighway seals me off | M |
| Trading their poisons the north and south bound cars | N |
| Flatten the doped snakes to ribbon In here the grasses | O |
| Unload their griefs on my shoes | P |
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| The woods creak and ache and the day forgets itself | Q |
| I bend over this drained basin where the small fish | R |
| Flex as the mud freezes | S |
| They glitter like eyes and I collect them all | L |
| Morgue of old logs and old images the lake | T |
| Opens and shuts accepting them among its reflections | U |
Sylvia Plath
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