Another Language Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEGGHIJ KLMNAOOPQKAA RGAGSBTJAJ| The whole world is flat | A |
| I am round | B |
| Even women avert their eyes | C |
| men embarrassed | D |
| by the messy way | E |
| that life turns into life | F |
| look away | E |
| forgetting they themselves | G |
| were once this roundness | G |
| underneath the heart | H |
| this helpless fish | I |
| swimming in eternity | J |
| - | |
| The sound of O | K |
| not the sound of I | L |
| embarrasses the world | M |
| My friends who voluntarily have made | N |
| their bodies flat | A |
| their writings flat as grief | O |
| look at me in disbelief | O |
| What is this large unseemly thing | P |
| a pregnant poet | Q |
| an enormous walking O | K |
| Oh take all the letters of the alphabet but that | A |
| We speak the Esperanto of the flat | A |
| - | |
| Condemned to sign | R |
| language silence pregnant poems | G |
| for men to snicker at | A |
| for women to denounce | G |
| I live alone | S |
| My world is round | B |
| bounded by the mountain of my fear | T |
| while all the great geographers agree | J |
| the world is flat | A |
| roundness cannot be | J |
Erica Jong
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