Whitsun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHFHII JHHIKL HMNHOOThis is not what I meant | A |
Stucco arches the banked rocks sunning in rows | B |
Bald eyes or petrified eggs | C |
Grownups coffined in stockings and jackets | D |
Lard pale sipping the thin | E |
Air like a medicine | F |
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The stopped horse on his chromium pole | G |
Stares through us his hooves chew the breeze | H |
Your shirt of crisp linen | F |
Bloats like a spinnaker Hat brims | H |
Deflect the watery dazzle the people idle | I |
As if in hospital | I |
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I can smell the salt all right | J |
At our feet the weed mustachioed sea | H |
Exhibits its glaucous silks | H |
Bowing and truckling like an old school oriental | I |
You're no happier than I about it | K |
A policeman points out a vacant cliff | L |
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Green as a pool table where cabbage butterflies | H |
Peel off to sea as gulls do | M |
And we picnic in the death stench of a hawthorn | N |
The waves pulse like hearts | H |
Beached under the spumy blooms we lie | O |
Sea sick and fever dry | O |
Sylvia Plath
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