Middle Aged Lovers, Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJ AKLMNOPQKR SCTK KUMVKK WWXJY ZJAJKKKA2K KB2K ZJC2KD2E2IKF2G2| You open to me | A |
| a little | B |
| then grow afraid | C |
| and close again | D |
| a small boy | E |
| fearing to be hurt | F |
| a toe stubbed | G |
| in the dark | H |
| a finger cut | I |
| on paper | J |
| - | |
| I think I am free | A |
| of fears | K |
| enraptured abandoned | L |
| to the call | M |
| of the Bacchae | N |
| my own siren | O |
| tied to my own | P |
| mast | Q |
| both Circe | K |
| and her swine | R |
| - | |
| But I too | S |
| am afraid | C |
| I know where | T |
| life leads | K |
| - | |
| The impulse | K |
| to join | U |
| to confess all | M |
| is followed | V |
| by the impulse | K |
| to renounce | K |
| - | |
| and love | W |
| imperishable love | W |
| must die | X |
| in order | J |
| to be reborn | Y |
| - | |
| We come | Z |
| to each other | J |
| tentatively | A |
| veterans of other | J |
| wars | K |
| divorce warrants | K |
| in our hands | K |
| which we would beat | A2 |
| into blossoms | K |
| - | |
| But blossoms | K |
| will not withstand | B2 |
| our beatings | K |
| - | |
| We come | Z |
| to each other | J |
| with hope | C2 |
| in our hands | K |
| the very thing | D2 |
| Pandora kept | E2 |
| in her casket | I |
| when all the ills | K |
| and woes of the world | F2 |
| escaped | G2 |
Erica Jong
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