In “Thoughts After Ruskin”, one of the first things that stand out is the actual layout of the poem on the page. The poems structure consists of five sections, with a very distinct and longer seventeen line third section. This section is distinct, both in the layout on the page, as well as the actual grammatical style. It is enveloped at either end between two shorter, four to five line sections. The first section is the one that is most like a normal stanza, in that it begins by following a rhymed quatrain of abac, even though the syllable count is not consistent. “Roses” ends the first line; “soap” the second; and “noses”, the third, however, this pattern is not continued and is disrupted with the addition of the word “ places” which ends the forth line of the stanza. We go on to read a five lined unrhymed stanza, and from here, the reader can no longer expect to read a poem with a strictly structured rhyme scheme, but it is each of the shorter sec

All the terrible chemistry of their kitchens. (lines 5-9)

These descriptions may seem harsh, but they serve to point out that in order to provide and care for the young, old, husbands, etc, a degree of violence comes hand in hand with the comfort that a woman disburses, the horrible bits can be seen as the foul tasting medicines of “All the terrible chemistry of their kitchens”, and as with medicine, you need to take something unpleasant before you can get better.

Armed with a warm rag, assaulting noses,

Holding hearts to bleed under a running tap,

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