Anti-matter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIEJKLMNOOP OQPROST OOUVOWOOXYZA2HQROB2C 2D2E2F2 BYOG2H2VBLMI2 OI2| I am not interested | A |
| in my body | B |
| the part that stinks | C |
| rots brings forth | D |
| life | E |
| the part that the ground | F |
| swallows | G |
| death giving birth | H |
| to death | I |
| all of life | E |
| considered | J |
| from the body's | K |
| point of view | L |
| is a downhill slide | M |
| all our small | N |
| preservatives | O |
| griefs | O |
| cannot reverse the trend | P |
| - | |
| All sensualists | O |
| turn puritan | Q |
| at the end | P |
| turning up lust's soil | R |
| finding bones | O |
| beneath the rich volcanic | S |
| dirt | T |
| - | |
| Some sleep in shrouds | O |
| some in coffins | O |
| some swear off | U |
| procreation others turn | V |
| vegetarian or worse | O |
| they live on air | W |
| on sheer platonic meals | O |
| of pure ideas | O |
| once gluttons of the flesh | X |
| they now become | Y |
| gourmets of the mind | Z |
| How to resist that | A2 |
| when the spacious earth | H |
| swallows her children | Q |
| so insatiably | R |
| when all our space age gods | O |
| are grounded | B2 |
| only the moan of pleasure | C2 |
| or the rasp of pain | D2 |
| can ever satisfy | E2 |
| the body's appetite | F2 |
| - | |
| yet my body | B |
| in its dubious wisdom | Y |
| led to yours | O |
| you may | G2 |
| puzzle out | H2 |
| this mystery in your turn | V |
| Choose mind choose body | B |
| choose to wed the two | L |
| many have tried | M |
| but few have done the deed | I2 |
| - | |
| Through you perhaps | O |
| I may at last succeed | I2 |
Erica Jong
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