Ego Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFGHIJKLMNCAEOP FQFRSTUT| I just didn't get it | A |
| even with the teacher holding an orange the earth in one hand | B |
| and a lemon the moon in the other | C |
| her favorite student the sun standing behind her with a flashlight | D |
| I just couldn't grasp it | A |
| this whole citrus universe these bumpy planets revolving so slowly | E |
| no one could even see themselves moving | F |
| I used to think if I could only concentrate hard enough | G |
| I could be the one person to feel what no one else could | H |
| sense a small tug from the ground a sky shift the earth changing gears | I |
| Even though I was only one mini speck on a speck | J |
| even though I was merely a pinprick in one goosebump on the orange | K |
| I was sure then I was the most specially perceptive perceptively sensitive | L |
| I was sure then my mother was the only mother to snap | M |
| The world doesn't revolve around you | N |
| The earth was fragile and mostly water | C |
| just the way the orange was mostly water if you peeled it | A |
| just the way I was mostly water if you peeled me | E |
| Looking back on that third grade science demonstration | O |
| I can understand why some people gave up on fame or religion or cures | P |
| especially people who have an understanding | F |
| of the excruciating crawl of the world | Q |
| who have a well developed sense of spatial reasoning | F |
| and the tininess that it is to be one of us | R |
| But not me even now I wouldn't mind being god the force | S |
| who spins the planets the way I spin a globe a basketball a yoyo | T |
| I wouldn't mind being that teacher who chooses the fruit | U |
| or that favorite kid who gives the moon its glow | T |
Denise Duhamel
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