Dear Colette Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EDFG HIJ KLM NOP BBQR NS TUUCVWX DUYUNUZUA2UUB2 AB C2NND2DMNN ADB2| Dear Colette | A |
| I want to write to you | B |
| about being a woman | C |
| for that is what you write to me | D |
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| I want to tell you how your face | E |
| enduring after thirty forty fifty | D |
| hangs above my desk | F |
| like my own muse | G |
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| I want to tell you how your hands | H |
| reach out from your books | I |
| seize my heart | J |
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| I want to tell you how your hair | K |
| electrifies my thoughts | L |
| like my own halo | M |
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| I want to tell you how your eyes | N |
| penetrate my fear | O |
| make it melt | P |
| - | |
| I want to tell you | B |
| simply that I love you | B |
| though you are dead | Q |
| I am still alive | R |
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| Suicides spinsters | N |
| all our kind | S |
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| Even decorous Jane Austen | T |
| never marrying | U |
| Sappho leaping | U |
| Sylvia in the oven | C |
| Anna Wickham Tsvetaeva Sara Teasdale | V |
| pale Virginia floating like Ophelia | W |
| Emily alone alone alone | X |
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| But you endure marry | D |
| go on writing | U |
| lose a husband gain a husband | Y |
| go on writing | U |
| sing tap dance | N |
| you go on writing | U |
| have a child still | Z |
| you go on writing | U |
| love a woman love a man | A2 |
| go on writing | U |
| You endure your writing | U |
| your life | B2 |
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| Dear Colette | A |
| I only want to thank you | B |
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| for your eyes ringed | C2 |
| with bluest paint like bruises | N |
| for your hair gathering sparks | N |
| like brush fire | D2 |
| for your hands which never willingly | D |
| let go | M |
| for your years your child your lovers | N |
| all your books | N |
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| Dear Colette | A |
| you hold me | D |
| to this life | B2 |
Erica Jong
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