Because I Would Not Admit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHIJDKL MNOPQRIS TUTVWVXYZA2IKB2 C2D2WE2F2IG2H2I2 J2K2J2L2RM2N2O2P2Q2 VR2VS2T2U2V2W2X2 Y2IW2F2| And his dark secret love | A |
| Does thy life destroy | B |
| William Blake | C |
| - | |
| Because I would not admit | D |
| that I had nurtured | E |
| an enemy within my breast | F |
| - | |
| a lover who wanted to gnaw | G |
| my secret rose | H |
| a lover who wanted to press me | I |
| between the covers of a book | J |
| then burn it | D |
| a lover usurper who wanted | K |
| to take my soul | L |
| - | |
| I nearly died | M |
| running my car upon rocks | N |
| like a badly steered sloop | O |
| crashing into trees | P |
| like a hurricane gale | Q |
| burning my arms in ovens | R |
| when I thought I was only | I |
| baking bread | S |
| - | |
| To admit the betrayal | T |
| was worse than | U |
| the fact of betrayal | T |
| for I loved him | V |
| as leaves love sun | W |
| turning my face to him | V |
| turning my hips my womb | X |
| to be filled with a dream | Y |
| of children a dream of books | Z |
| babies sprouting like leaves | A2 |
| from a spring tree | I |
| a dream of trees that leaked blood | K |
| instead of sap | B2 |
| - | |
| The dream s the thing | C2 |
| the dream we die for | D2 |
| turning our faces to the sun | W |
| eyes closed never seeing it has | E2 |
| gone out | F2 |
| dead star it blazes coldly | I |
| over a dead planet | G2 |
| while we bask in its afterglow | H2 |
| now remembered in the mind | I2 |
| - | |
| He was fond | J2 |
| of stars telescopes | K2 |
| fond of machines fond | J2 |
| of building the most complex | L2 |
| contraptions | R |
| to scale the clouds | M2 |
| But Icarus flies | N2 |
| near the sun with waxen wings | O2 |
| does not think of gears | P2 |
| or motors | Q2 |
| - | |
| Trees rise up at him | V |
| as he falls the earth | R2 |
| rushes to meet him | V |
| like a lover | S2 |
| raising her writhing hips | T2 |
| the wings weep their waxy tears | U2 |
| fall apart | V2 |
| the sun is hot | W2 |
| on his face | X2 |
| - | |
| But even as he falls | Y2 |
| he is in ecstasy | I |
| his sun has not | W2 |
| gone out | F2 |
Erica Jong
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