For My Husband Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGAHIJKL MJCNO PQLRSST| You sleep in the darkness | A |
| you with the back I love | B |
| the gift of sleeping | C |
| through my noisy nights of poetry | D |
| - | |
| I have taken other men into my thoughts | E |
| since I met you | F |
| I have loved parts of them | G |
| But only you sleep on through the darkness | A |
| like a mountain where my house is planted | H |
| like a rock on which my temple stands | I |
| like a great dictionary holding every word | J |
| even some | K |
| I have never spoken | L |
| - | |
| You breathe | M |
| The pages of your dreams are riffled | J |
| by the winds of my writing | C |
| The pillow creases your cheek | N |
| as I cover pages | O |
| - | |
| Element in which I swim | P |
| or fly | Q |
| silent muse backbone companion | L |
| it is unfashionable | R |
| to confess to marriage | S |
| yet I feel no bondage | S |
| in this air we share | T |
Erica Jong
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