Sweeney Erect Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEBE FGHG IAJA HKLK EMNM OPQP RSTS JUNU VWXW YZA2Z B2C2D2C2| And the trees about me | A |
| Let them be dry and leafless let the rocks | B |
| Groan with continual surges and behind me | A |
| Make all a desolation Look look wenches | C |
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| Paint me a cavernous waste shore | D |
| Cast in the unstilled Cyclades | E |
| Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks | B |
| Faced by the snarled and yelping seas | E |
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| Display me Aeolus above | F |
| Reviewing the insurgent gales | G |
| Which tangle Ariadne's hair | H |
| And swell with haste the perjured sails | G |
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| Morning stirs the feet and hands | I |
| Nausicaa and Polypheme | A |
| Gesture of orang outang | J |
| Rises from the sheets in steam | A |
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| This withered root of knots of hair | H |
| Slitted below and gashed with eyes | K |
| This oval O cropped out with teeth | L |
| The sickle motion from the thighs | K |
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| Jackknifes upward at the knees | E |
| Then straightens out from heel to hip | M |
| Pushing the framework of the bed | N |
| And clawing at the pillow slip | M |
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| Sweeney addressed full length to shave | O |
| Broadbottomed pink from nape to base | P |
| Knows the female temperament | Q |
| And wipes the suds around his face | P |
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| The lengthened shadow of a man | R |
| Is history said Emerson | S |
| Who had not seen the silhouette | T |
| Of Sweeney straddled in the sun | S |
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| Tests the razor on his leg | J |
| Waiting until the shriek subsides | U |
| The epileptic on the bed | N |
| Curves backward clutching at her sides | U |
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| The ladies of the corridor | V |
| Find themselves involved disgraced | W |
| Call witness to their principles | X |
| And deprecate the lack of taste | W |
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| Observing that hysteria | Y |
| Might easily be misunderstood | Z |
| Mrs Turner intimates | A2 |
| It does the house no sort of good | Z |
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| But Doris towelled from the bath | B2 |
| Enters padding on broad feet | C2 |
| Bringing sal volatile | D2 |
| And a glass of brandy neat | C2 |
T. S. Eliot
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