The Rabbit Catcher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE CCCCF GHICJ CCCKL MNOCP QCJJI| It 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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