The Rabbit Catcher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE CCCCF GHICJ CCCKL MNOCP QCJJIIt was a place of force | A |
The wind gagging my mouth with my own blown hair | B |
Tearing off my voice and the sea | C |
Blinding me with its lights the lives of the dead | D |
Unreeling in it spreading like oil | E |
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I tasted the malignity of the gorse | C |
Its black spikes | C |
The extreme unction of its yellow candle flowers | C |
They had an efficiency a great beauty | C |
And were extravagant like torture | F |
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There was only one place to get to | G |
Simmering perfumed | H |
The paths narrowed into the hollow | I |
And the snares almost effaced themselves | C |
Zeros shutting on nothing | J |
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Set close like birth pangs | C |
The absence of shrieks | C |
Made a hole in the hot day a vacancy | C |
The glassy light was a clear wall | K |
The thickets quiet | L |
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I felt a still busyness an intent | M |
I felt hands round a tea mug dull blunt | N |
Ringing the white china | O |
How they awaited him those little deaths | C |
They waited like sweethearts They excited him | P |
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And we too had a relationship | Q |
Tight wires between us | C |
Pegs too deep to uproot and a mind like a ring | J |
Sliding shut on some quick thing | J |
The constriction killing me also | I |
Sylvia Plath
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