Coupling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDF GHIJKLL MNOOPQRST| Wherever he looks standing still in the city | A |
| are people born of coupling walking in gray suits | B |
| and ties in long dresses and coiffed hair | C |
| speaking elegantly of themselves and of each other | D |
| forgetting for the moment their origin | E |
| perhaps wishing not to know or to remember | D |
| They dress as if having been born in a clothing store | F |
| - | |
| They were born of men and women naked | G |
| and gyrating from the hips | H |
| and with movements up and down | I |
| and with climactic yells | J |
| as if losing their lives | K |
| in the pleasure and so glad | L |
| so wildly glad | L |
| - | |
| From this rises the child | M |
| from between the wet crotch blood and mucus | N |
| He stands upright and pronounces himself | O |
| humankind and steps from bed and clothes himself | O |
| in a gray suit and from the next room of birth | P |
| steps a woman in a long dress They meet | Q |
| in the corridor and arm in arm walk its length | R |
| in search of one room empty of inhabitants | S |
| but prepared for them | T |
David Ignatow
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