Climbing You Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFB AGHIJ KBBLMBNOP ICQRS| I want to understand the steep thing | A |
| that climbs ladders in your throat | B |
| I can't make sense of you | C |
| Everywhere I look you're there | D |
| a vast landmark a volcano | E |
| poking its head through the clouds | F |
| Gulliver sprawled across Lilliput | B |
| - | |
| I climb into your eyes looking | A |
| The pupils are black painted stage flats | G |
| They can be pulled down like window shades | H |
| I switch on a light in your iris | I |
| Your brain ticks like a bomb | J |
| - | |
| In your offhand mocking way | K |
| you've invited me into your chest | B |
| Inside the blur that poses as your heart | B |
| I'm supposed to go in with a torch | L |
| or maybe hot water bottles | M |
| defrost it by hand | B |
| as one defrosts an old refrigerator | N |
| It will shudder sigh | O |
| the icebox to the insomniac | P |
| - | |
| Oh there's nothing like love between us | I |
| You're the mountain I am climbing you | C |
| If I fall you won't be all to blame | Q |
| but you'll wait years maybe | R |
| for the next doomed expedition | S |
Erica Jong
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