The Lady And The Earthenware Head Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBAE FGFHIIJ KLKMLLN OKPQKKQ LRLSRRT| Fired in sanguine clay the model head | A |
| Fit nowhere brickdust complected eye under a dense lid | B |
| On the long bookshelf it stood | C |
| Stolidly propping thick volumes of prose spite set | D |
| Ape of her look Best rid | B |
| Hearthstone at once of the outrageous head | A |
| Still she felt loath to junk it | E |
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| No place it seemed for the effigy to fare | F |
| Free from all molesting Rough boys | G |
| Spying a pate to spare | F |
| Glowering sullen and pompous from an ash heap | H |
| Might well seize this prize | I |
| Maltreat the hostage head in shocking wise | I |
| And waken the sly nerve up | J |
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| That knits to each original its coarse copy A dark tarn | K |
| She thought of then thick silted with weeds obscured | L |
| To serve her exacting turn | K |
| But out of the watery aspic laureled by fins | M |
| The simulacrum leered | L |
| Lewdly beckoning and her courage wavered | L |
| She blenched as one who drowns | N |
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| And resolved more ceremoniously to lodge | O |
| The mimic head in a crotched willow green | K |
| Vaulted by foliage | P |
| Let bell tongued birds descant in blackest feather | Q |
| On the rendering grain by grain | K |
| Of that uncouth shape to simple sod again | K |
| Through drear and dulcet weather | Q |
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| Yet shrined on her shelf the grisly visage endured | L |
| Despite her wrung hands her tears her praying Vanish | R |
| Steadfast and evil starred | L |
| It ogled through rock fault wind flaw and fisted wave | S |
| An antique hag head too tough for knife to finish | R |
| Refusing to diminish | R |
| By one jot its basilisk look of love | T |
Sylvia Plath
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