Man In Space Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH BIJ| All you have to do is listen to the way a man | A |
| sometimes talks to his wife at a table of people | B |
| and notice how intent he is on making his point | C |
| even though her lower lip is beginning to quiver | D |
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| and you will know why the women in science | E |
| fiction movies who inhabit a planet of their own | F |
| are not pictured making a salad or reading a magazine | G |
| when the men from earth arrive in their rocket | H |
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| why they are always standing in a semicircle | B |
| with their arms folded their bare legs set apart | I |
| their breasts protected by hard metal disks | J |
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