Knives Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HIJKLMNO PQRPSJT| The women he has had are all faces | A |
| without eyes | B |
| He has entered them blind | C |
| as a cut worm | D |
| He has swum their oceans | E |
| like a wounded fish | F |
| looking for home | G |
| - | |
| At nights when he can't sleep | H |
| he dreams of weaving | I |
| backward up that river | J |
| where the banks | K |
| are fringed with mouths | L |
| weedy hair | M |
| grows amid the dark crusts | N |
| of ancient blood | O |
| - | |
| Tonight he is afraid lonely | P |
| in a city of meat knives | Q |
| I would go under his knife | R |
| move so willingly | P |
| that his heart | S |
| might turn to butter | J |
| in his mouth | T |
Erica Jong
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