Sympathetic Portrait Of A Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIEEIJKLE MNOPQRS ETU| The murderer's little daughter | A |
| who is barely ten years old | B |
| jerks her shoulders | C |
| right and left | D |
| so as to catch a glimpse of me | E |
| without turning round | F |
| - | |
| Her skinny little arms | G |
| wrap themselves | H |
| this way then that | I |
| reversely about her body | E |
| Nervously | E |
| she crushes her straw hat | I |
| about her eyes | J |
| and tilts her head | K |
| to deepen the shadow | L |
| smiling excitedly | E |
| - | |
| As best as she can | M |
| she hides herself | N |
| in the full sunlight | O |
| her cordy legs writhing | P |
| beneath the little flowered dress | Q |
| that leaves them bare | R |
| from mid thigh to ankle | S |
| - | |
| Why has she chosen me | E |
| for the knife | T |
| that darts along her smile | U |
William Carlos Williams
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