The Rabbit Catcher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE CCCCF GHICJ CCCKL MNOCP QCJJI

It was a place of forceA
The wind gagging my mouth with my own blown hairB
Tearing off my voice and the seaC
Blinding me with its lights the lives of the deadD
Unreeling in it spreading like oilE
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I tasted the malignity of the gorseC
Its black spikesC
The extreme unction of its yellow candle flowersC
They had an efficiency a great beautyC
And were extravagant like tortureF
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There was only one place to get toG
Simmering perfumedH
The paths narrowed into the hollowI
And the snares almost effaced themselvesC
Zeros shutting on nothingJ
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Set close like birth pangsC
The absence of shrieksC
Made a hole in the hot day a vacancyC
The glassy light was a clear wallK
The thickets quietL
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I felt a still busyness an intentM
I felt hands round a tea mug dull bluntN
Ringing the white chinaO
How they awaited him those little deathsC
They waited like sweethearts They excited himP
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And we too had a relationshipQ
Tight wires between usC
Pegs too deep to uproot and a mind like a ringJ
Sliding shut on some quick thingJ
The constriction killing me alsoI

Sylvia Plath



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