The Manor Garden Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC BDAE BBBF BBBF BBGF| The fountains are dry and the roses over | A |
| Incense of death Your day approaches | B |
| The pears fatten like little buddhas | B |
| A blue mist is dragging the lake | C |
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| You move through the era of fishes | B |
| The smug centuries of the pig | D |
| Head toe and finger | A |
| Come clear of the shadow History | E |
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| Nourishes these broken flutings | B |
| These crowns of acanthus | B |
| And the crow settles her garments | B |
| You inherit white heather a bee's wing | F |
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| Two suicides the family wolves | B |
| Hours of blankness Some hard stars | B |
| Already yellow the heavens | B |
| The spider on its own string | F |
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| Crosses the lake The worms | B |
| Quit their usual habitations | B |
| The small birds converge converge | G |
| With their gifts to a difficult borning | F |
Sylvia Plath
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