Flight To Catalina Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI JBKLMNOP QRSTBUVBC WBCXYZA2KB2B| On a darkening planet | A |
| speeding | B |
| toward our death | C |
| we pierce a rosy cloud | D |
| hit clean air | E |
| we glide above | F |
| the red infernal smog | G |
| we leave the mammon city | H |
| far behind | I |
| - | |
| Here where the air is clear | J |
| as nothing | B |
| where cactus pads | K |
| are prickly as stars | L |
| where buffalo chips | M |
| are gilded by the sun | N |
| the moon tastes like a peppermint | O |
| we land | P |
| - | |
| 'Have we flown to heaven ' | - |
| I inquired | Q |
| meant it | R |
| The airport was a leveled | S |
| mountaintop | T |
| We took the cloudbank | B |
| at a tilt | U |
| bumped the runway | V |
| just ten degrees from crashing | B |
| certain death | C |
| - | |
| If I'm to die God | W |
| let me die flying | B |
| Fear is worse than death | C |
| I know that now | X |
| The cloudbanks of my life | Y |
| have silver linings | Z |
| Beyond them | A2 |
| cactus pads | K |
| clear earth | B2 |
| dear sky | B |
Erica Jong
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