The Hermit At Outermost House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHF IJK LLM NKN O| Sky and sea horizon hinged | A |
| Tablets of blank blue couldn't | B |
| Clapped shut flatten this man out | C |
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| The great gods Stone Head Claw Foot | D |
| Winded by much rock bumping | E |
| And claw threat realized that | F |
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| For what then had they endured | G |
| Dourly the long hots and colds | H |
| Those old despots if he sat | F |
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| Laugh shaken on his doorsill | I |
| Backbone unbendable as | J |
| Timbers of his upright hut | K |
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| Hard gods were there nothing else | L |
| Still he thumbed out something else | L |
| Thumbed no stony horny pot | M |
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| But a certain meaning green | N |
| He withstood them that hermit | K |
| Rock face crab claw verged on green | N |
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| Gulls mulled in the greenest light | O |
Sylvia Plath
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