The Courage Of Shutting-up Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FFGFE FFFHE IJEFB KLFEM FFNOF FFPFF| The courage of the shut mouth in spite of artillery | A |
| The line pink and quiet a worm basking | B |
| There are black disks behind it the disks of outrage | C |
| And the outrage of a sky the lined brain of it | D |
| The disks revolve they ask to be heard | E |
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| Loaded as they are with accounts of ies | F |
| ies usages desertions and doubleness | F |
| The needle journeying in its groove | G |
| Silver beast between two dark canyons | F |
| A great surgeon now a tattooist | E |
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| Tattooing over and over the same blue grievances | F |
| The snakes the babies the tits | F |
| On mermaids and two legged dreamgirls | F |
| The surgeon is quiet he does not speak | H |
| He has seen too much death his hands are full of it | E |
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| So the disks of the brain revolve like the muzzles of cannon | I |
| Then there is that antique billhook the tongue | J |
| Indefatigable purple Must it be cut out | E |
| It has nine tails it is dangerous | F |
| And the noise it flays from the air once it gets going | B |
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| No the tongue too has been put by | K |
| Hung up in the library with the engravings of Rangoon | L |
| And the fox heads the otter heads the heads of dead rabbits | F |
| It is a marvelous object | E |
| The things it has pierced in its time | M |
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| But how about the eyes the eyes the eyes | F |
| Mirrors can kill and talk they are terrible rooms | F |
| In which a torture goes on one can only watch | N |
| The face that lived in this mirror is the face of a dead man | O |
| Do not worry about the eyes | F |
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| They may be white and shy they are no stool pigeons | F |
| Their death rays folded like flags | F |
| Of a country no longer heard of | P |
| An obstinate independency | F |
| Insolvent among the mountains | F |
Sylvia Plath
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