The Jailer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJ KLMNO OPOOQ RBOST OUBUS VSWUX YSBZU A2B2C2UU| My night sweats grease his breakfast plate | A |
| The same placard of blue fog is wheeled into position | B |
| With the same trees and headstones | C |
| Is that all he can come up with | D |
| The rattler of keys | E |
| - | |
| I have been drugged and raped | F |
| Seven hours knocked out of my right mind | G |
| Into a black sack | H |
| Where I relax foetus or cat | I |
| Lever of his wet dreams | J |
| - | |
| Something is gone | K |
| My sleeping capsule my red and blue zeppelin | L |
| Drops me from a terrible altitude | M |
| Carapace smashed | N |
| I spread to the beaks of birds | O |
| - | |
| O little gimlets | O |
| What holes this papery day is already full of | P |
| He his been burning me with cigarettes | O |
| Pretending I am a negress with pink paws | O |
| I am myself That is not enough | Q |
| - | |
| The fever trickles and stiffens in my hair | R |
| My ribs show What have I eaten | B |
| Lies and smiles | O |
| Surely the sky is not that color | S |
| Surely the grass should be rippling | T |
| - | |
| All day gluing my church of burnt matchsticks | O |
| I dream of someone else entirely | U |
| And he for this subversion | B |
| Hurts me he | U |
| With his armor of fakery | S |
| - | |
| His high cold masks of amnesia | V |
| How did I get here | S |
| Indeterminate criminal | W |
| I die with variety | U |
| Hung starved burned hooked | X |
| - | |
| I imagine him | Y |
| Impotent as distant thunder | S |
| In whose shadow I have eaten my ghost ration | B |
| I wish him dead or away | Z |
| That it seems is the impossibility | U |
| - | |
| That being free What would the dark | A2 |
| Do without fevers to eat | B2 |
| What would the light | C2 |
| Do without eyes to knife what would he | U |
| Do do do without me | U |
Sylvia Plath
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