Reservations Confirmed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DDE FGE DHI JKL LML HHC NHH OHP| The ticket settles on my desk a paper tongue | A |
| pronouncing quot Go away quot a flattened seed | B |
| from which a thousand mile leap through the air can grow | C |
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| It's pure potential a vacation to be | D |
| the way an apple is a pie to be | D |
| a bullet is a death to be Or is the future | E |
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| pressed into it inalterably woven between | F |
| the slick fibers like secret threads | G |
| from the U S Treasury Is my flight number | E |
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| already flashing as cameras grind and the newly | D |
| bereaved moan Or does it gleam under Arrivals | H |
| digits turned innocuous as those that didn't | I |
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| win the raffle for a new Ford truck | J |
| If somewhere I'm en route now am I | K |
| praying the winged ballpoint I'm strapped into | L |
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| will write on Denver's runway quot Safe and Sound quot | L |
| Was my pocket picked in Burbank | M |
| and I've just noticed at thirty thousand feet | L |
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| Am I smiling watching the clouds' icefields | H |
| melt to smoky wisps revealing lakes | H |
| like Chinese dragons embroidered in blue below | C |
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| Lifting my ticket do I hold a bon voyage | N |
| or boiling jet streams roaring thunderstorms | H |
| the plane bounced like a boat on cast iron seas | H |
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| then the lightning flash the dizzy plunge | O |
| perfectly aware amid the shrieks and prayers | H |
| that live or die I won't survive the fall | P |
Charles Harper Webb
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