The Great Carbuncle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCD EFGHI JKLMN OCPQR CPSTC BCCAU| We came over the moor top | A |
| Through air streaming and green lit | B |
| Stone farms foundering in it | B |
| Valleys of grass altering | C |
| In a light neither dawn | D |
| - | |
| Nor nightfall out hands faces | E |
| Lucent as percelain the earth's | F |
| Claim and weight gone out of them | G |
| Some such transfiguring moved | H |
| The eight pilgrims towards its source | I |
| - | |
| Toward the great jewel shown often | J |
| Never given hidden yet | K |
| Simultaneously seen | L |
| On moor top at sea bottom | M |
| Knowable only by light | N |
| - | |
| Other than noon that moon stars | O |
| The once known way becoming | C |
| Wholly other and ourselves | P |
| Estranged changed suspended where | Q |
| Angels are rumored clearly | R |
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| Floating among the floating | C |
| Tables and chairs Gravity's | P |
| Lost in the lift and drift of | S |
| An easier element | T |
| Than earth and there is nothing | C |
| - | |
| So fine we cannot do it | B |
| But nearing means distancing | C |
| At the common homecoming | C |
| Light withdraws Chairs tables drop | A |
| Down the body weighs like stone | U |
Sylvia Plath
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