Going To School In Bed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBD ABCBBD ABCBBD EEFD GHIJ

If it is impossible to promiseA
absolute fidelityB
this is becauseC
we learn so much geographyB
from the shifting of one bodyB
on anotherD
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If it is impossible to promiseA
absolute fidelityB
this is becauseC
we learn so much historyB
from the lying of one bodyB
on anotherD
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If it is impossible to promiseA
absolute fidelityB
this is becauseC
we learn so much psychologyB
from the dreaming of one bodyB
of anotherD
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Life writes so many lettersE
on the naked bodies of loversE
What a tattoo artistF
What an ingenious teacherD
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Is it any wonder we appearG
like schoolchildren dreamingH
nakedI
anxious to learnJ

Erica Jong



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