If God Is A Dog Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDD EDDDDAAFAGDHIJKL MNOP DQRDD| If God is a dog drowsing | A |
| contemplating | A |
| the quintessential dogginess | B |
| of the universe of the whole | C |
| canine race why are we | D |
| uneasy | D |
| - | |
| No dog I know | E |
| would hurl thunderbolts | D |
| or plant plague germs | D |
| or shower us with darts | D |
| of pox or gonococci | D |
| No He lies on his back | A |
| awaiting | A |
| the cosmic belly rub | F |
| He wags his tail signifying | A |
| universal love | G |
| He frolics and cavorts | D |
| because he has just | H |
| taken a galactic shit | I |
| found it good | J |
| All dogs are blessed | K |
| they live in the now | L |
| - | |
| But God is all too human | M |
| Somehow we have spelled his name | N |
| wrong got it backward | O |
| aroused his growl | P |
| - | |
| God drowses | D |
| like a lazy old man | Q |
| bored | R |
| with our false | D |
| alarms | D |
Erica Jong
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