Driving Me Away Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHIJK KLMNO MMPMQPR STUVUBCW| Driving me away | A |
| is easier | B |
| than saying | C |
| goodbye | D |
| - | |
| kissing the air | E |
| the last syllable | F |
| of truth | G |
| being always | H |
| two lips compressed | I |
| around | J |
| emptiness | K |
| - | |
| the emptiness | K |
| you dread | L |
| yet return to | M |
| as just punishment | N |
| just reward | O |
| - | |
| Who | M |
| loved you | M |
| so relentlessly | P |
| Who lost you | M |
| in that howling void | Q |
| between infancy | P |
| and death | R |
| - | |
| It is punctuated | S |
| by the warm bodies | T |
| of women | U |
| who hold you for a while | V |
| then run | U |
| down that echoing corridor | B |
| doing | C |
| as they are told | W |
Erica Jong
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