Hotel Rooms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB BBCBDDEF F BBGHBBDBBD FIJKDFKLB BCJMJJN JOFFJ J| 'Hotel rooms constitute a separate moral universe ' | A |
| Tom Stoppard | B |
| - | |
| A bed a telephone the cord | B |
| to the world | B |
| beyond the womb | C |
| Here lovers meet have met | B |
| will meet again behind different faces | D |
| while the icy picures | D |
| look on | E |
| seeing nothing | F |
| - | |
| Hotel rooms see nothing | F |
| - | |
| Business transacted | B |
| prostitutes killed | B |
| marriages silently shaken | G |
| what happens here | H |
| is off the record | B |
| there is no record | B |
| when the sheets | D |
| are changed | B |
| every night | B |
| for other guests | D |
| - | |
| you my darling | F |
| my lover my reader | I |
| ultimately | J |
| myself | K |
| why are you hungering so | D |
| why are you opening | F |
| abysses in yourself | K |
| before you rush off | L |
| to the next appointment | B |
| - | |
| Eternity is just | B |
| a hotel room | C |
| deluxe or seedy | J |
| as the fates allow | M |
| lonely as the loneliest | J |
| one night stand | J |
| with no telephone | N |
| - | |
| Or is it the body | J |
| Is the body the hotel room after all | O |
| O let us inhabit it amply crying | F |
| screaming embracing | F |
| before we | J |
| - | |
| check out | J |
Erica Jong
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