Motion Sickness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCDEFGHIJKBLMNJOB OPQGRSOTJKUJJ| I am tired of the heave and swell | A |
| the deep lunge in the belly the gut's | B |
| dumb show of dance and counterdance | B |
| sway and pause the pure jig of nausea | B |
| in the pit of a spinning world | C |
| Where the body moves the mind | D |
| often lags clutching deck anchor | E |
| the gray strap that hangs like the beard | F |
| of death from the train's ceiling | G |
| the mind lost in the slow bulge | H |
| of ocean under the moon's long pull | I |
| or the endless coil of some medieval | J |
| argument for the existence of God | K |
| or the dream of the giant maze | B |
| that turns constantly in and in | L |
| on itself and there is no way out | M |
| I am sick and tired of every rise and fall | N |
| of the sun the moon's tedious cycle | J |
| that sucks blood from the thighs of women | O |
| and turns teenage boys into wolves | B |
| prowling the streets hungry for motion | O |
| Let me be still let me rest | P |
| in some hollow of space and time | Q |
| far from the seasons and that boring | G |
| ponderous drama of day and night | R |
| Let me sleep in the heart of calm | S |
| and dream placidly of birds frozen | O |
| in the unmoving air of eternity | T |
| and the earth grown immobile | J |
| in its centrifugal spin and God | K |
| motionless as Lazarus in his tomb | U |
| before he is raised dizzily | J |
| to fall again to rise to fall | J |
B H Fairchild
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