The Shrike Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFDGDHIJKIJLMHNO PQC| When night comes black | A |
| Such royal dreams beckon this man | B |
| As lift him apart | C |
| From his earth wife's side | D |
| To wing sleep feathered | E |
| The singular air | F |
| While she envious bride | D |
| Cannot follow after but lies | G |
| With her blank brown eyes starved wide | D |
| Twisting curses in the tangled sheet | H |
| With taloned fingers | I |
| Shaking in her skull's cage | J |
| The stuffed shape of her flown mate | K |
| Escaped among moon plumaged strangers | I |
| So hungered she must wait in rage | J |
| Until bird racketing dawn | L |
| When her shrike face | M |
| Leans to peck open those locked lids to eat | H |
| Crowns palace all | N |
| That nightlong stole her male | O |
| And with red beak | P |
| Spike and suck out | Q |
| Last blood drop of that truant heart | C |
Sylvia Plath
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