One Flesh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBAA DEDEDD FGFGFG| Lying apart now each in a separate bed | A |
| He with a book keeping the light on late | B |
| She like a girl dreaming of childhood | C |
| All men elsewhere it is as if they wait | B |
| Some new event the book he holds unread | A |
| Her eyes fixed on the shadows overhead | A |
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| Tossed up like flotsam from a former passion | D |
| How cool they lie They hardly ever touch | E |
| Or if they do it is like a confession | D |
| Of having little feeling or too much | E |
| Chastity faces them a destination | D |
| For which their whole lives were a preparation | D |
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| Strangely apart yet strangely close together | F |
| Silence between them like a thread to hold | G |
| And not wind in And time itself's a feather | F |
| Touching them gently Do they know they're old | G |
| These two who are my father and my mother | F |
| Whose fire from which I came has now grown cold | G |
Elizabeth Jennings
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