My Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEFGHI JDKJLMEC JDNE JOPQR| 'Death is our eternal companion ' Don Juan said with a most serious air 'It is always to our left at an arm's length It has always been watching you It always will until the day it taps you ' | A |
| Carlos Castaneda | B |
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| My death | C |
| looks exactly like me | D |
| She lives to my left | E |
| at exactly an arm's length | F |
| She has my face hair hands | G |
| she ages | H |
| as I grow older | I |
| - | |
| Sometimes at night | J |
| my death awakens me | D |
| or else appears in dreams | K |
| I did not write | J |
| Sometimes a sudden wind | L |
| blows from nowhere | M |
| I look left | E |
| see my death | C |
| - | |
| Alive I write | J |
| with my right hand only | D |
| When I am dead | N |
| I shall write with my left | E |
| - | |
| But later I will have to write | J |
| through others | O |
| I may appear | P |
| to future poets | Q |
| as their deaths | R |
Erica Jong
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