Yadwigha, On A Red Couch, Among Lillies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE EFDACB BECFAD DBAEFC CDFBEA ACEDBF ACE| ing on this baroque couch | A |
| Upholstered in red velvet under the eye | B |
| Of uncaged tigers and a tropical moon | C |
| Set in intricate wilderness of green | D |
| Heart shaped leaves like catalpa leaves and lillies | E |
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| Of monstrous size like no well bred lilies | E |
| It seems teh consistent critics wanted you | F |
| To choose between your world of jungle green | D |
| And the fashionable monde of the red couch | A |
| With its prim bric brac without a moon | C |
| To turn you luminous without the eye | B |
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| Of tigers to be stilled by your dark eye | B |
| And body whiter than its frill of lilies | E |
| They'd have had yellow silk screening the moon | C |
| Leaves and lilies flattened to paper behind you | F |
| Or at most to a mille fleurs tapestry But the couch | A |
| Stood stubborn in it's jungle red against green | D |
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| Red against fifty variants of green | D |
| The couch glared out at the prosaic eye | B |
| So Rousseau to explain why the red couch | A |
| Persisted in the picture with the lilies | E |
| Tigers snakes and the snakecharmer and you | F |
| And birds of paradise and the round moon | C |
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| Described how you fell dreaming at full of moon | C |
| On a red velvet couch within your green | D |
| Tessellared boudoir Hearing flutes you | F |
| Dreamed yourself away in the moon's eye | B |
| To a beryl jungle and dreamed that bright moon lilies | E |
| Nodded their petaled heads around your couch | A |
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| And that Rousseau told the critics was why the couch | A |
| Accompanied you So they nodded at the couch with the moon | C |
| And the snakecharmer's song and the gigantic lilies | E |
| Marvelingly numbered the many shades of green | D |
| But to a friend in private Rousseau confessed his eye | B |
| So possessed by the glowing red of the couch which you | F |
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| Yadwigha pose on that he put you on the couch | A |
| To feed his eye with red such red under the moon | C |
| In the midst of all that green and those great lilies | E |
Sylvia Plath
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