Going To School In Bed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBD ABCBBD ABCBBD EEFD GHIJ| If it is impossible to promise | A |
| absolute fidelity | B |
| this is because | C |
| we learn so much geography | B |
| from the shifting of one body | B |
| on another | D |
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| If it is impossible to promise | A |
| absolute fidelity | B |
| this is because | C |
| we learn so much history | B |
| from the lying of one body | B |
| on another | D |
| - | |
| If it is impossible to promise | A |
| absolute fidelity | B |
| this is because | C |
| we learn so much psychology | B |
| from the dreaming of one body | B |
| of another | D |
| - | |
| Life writes so many letters | E |
| on the naked bodies of lovers | E |
| What a tattoo artist | F |
| What an ingenious teacher | D |
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| Is it any wonder we appear | G |
| like schoolchildren dreaming | H |
| naked | I |
| anxious to learn | J |
Erica Jong
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