If I Should Sleep With A Lady Called Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGHI JJ| if I should sleep with a lady called death | A |
| get another man with firmer lips | B |
| to take your new mouth in his teeth | C |
| hips pumping pleasure into hips | B |
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| Seeing how the limp huddling string | D |
| of your smile over his body squirms | E |
| kissingly I will bring you every spring | D |
| handfuls of little normal worms | E |
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| Dress deftly your flesh in stupid stuffs | F |
| phrase the immense weapon of your hair | G |
| Understanding why his eye laughs | H |
| I will bring you every year | I |
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| something which is worth the whole | J |
| an inch of nothing for your soul | J |
E. E. Cummings
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