Aura Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEFG HIJDKL MNC OPIGAQRS AJTU VWBX| I sit in the black leather chair | A |
| meditating | B |
| on the plume of smoke that rises | C |
| in the air | A |
| riffling the pages of my life | D |
| as if it were a book of poems | E |
| flipping through | F |
| past future | G |
| - | |
| If I go back back back | H |
| riding the plume of smoke | I |
| I find I died | J |
| in childbirth in another life | D |
| died by fire in the life before that | K |
| died by water twice or more | L |
| - | |
| I pick out days | M |
| relive them | N |
| as if I were trying on dresses | C |
| - | |
| When the future beckons | O |
| I follow | P |
| riding another plume of smoke | I |
| feeling the barrier | G |
| between skin air | A |
| evaporate | Q |
| my body disappear | R |
| like the myth it is | S |
| - | |
| My cheeks burn against the air | A |
| flaming where two elements collide | J |
| intermingle | T |
| becoming one | U |
| - | |
| Oh explosion at the body's edge | V |
| I live on a ledge of time | W |
| gazing | B |
| at the infinite | X |
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