The Burnt-out Spa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGHI JKKL MNOP QRST UVPP QWHX YFQQ Q| An old beast ended in this place | A |
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| A monster of wood and rusty teeth | B |
| Fire smelted his eyes to lumps | C |
| Of pale blue vitreous stuff opaque | D |
| As resin drops oozed from pine bark | E |
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| The rafters and struts of his body wear | F |
| Their char of karakul still I can't tell | G |
| How long his carcass had foundered under | H |
| The rubbish of summers the black leaved falls | I |
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| Now little weeds insinuate | J |
| Soft suede tongues between his bones | K |
| His armorplate his toppled stones | K |
| Are an esplanade for crickets | L |
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| I pick and pry like a doctor or | M |
| Arch ologist among | N |
| Iron entrails enameled bowl | O |
| The coils and pipes that made him run | P |
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| The small dell eats what ate it once | Q |
| And yet the ichor of the spring | R |
| Proceeds clear as it ever did | S |
| From the broken throat that marshy lip | T |
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| It flows off below the green and white | U |
| Balustrade of a sag backed bridge | V |
| Leaning over I encounter one | P |
| Blue and improbable person | P |
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| Framed in a basketwork of cattails | Q |
| O she is gracious and austere | W |
| Seated beneath the toneless water | H |
| It is not I it is not I | X |
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| No animal spoils on her green doorstep | Y |
| And we shall never enter there | F |
| Where the durable ones keep house | Q |
| The stream that hustles us | Q |
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| Neither nourishes nor heals | Q |
Sylvia Plath
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