On Reading A Vast Anthology Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFBGH IJKLMBBNBOPQBB FRBLRSTUV BCB| Love death sleeping | A |
| with somebody else's husband | B |
| or wife this | C |
| is what poetry is | D |
| about Eskimo Aztec | E |
| or even Italian | F |
| Rinascimento | B |
| or even the high falutin Greeks | G |
| or noble Roman O's | H |
| - | |
| O the constant turmoil | I |
| of the human species | J |
| beds graves Spring with its | K |
| familiar rosebuds the wrong beds | L |
| the wrong graves wars | M |
| unremembered boundaries gained | B |
| only to be lost lost | B |
| again | N |
| lost roses whose lost | B |
| petals | O |
| reminded poets to carpe carpe | P |
| diem with whoever's wife | Q |
| or husband happened to | B |
| be handiest | B |
| - | |
| O Turmoil Confusion | F |
| you are my Muses | R |
| O longing for a world | B |
| without death without beds | L |
| divided by walls between houses | R |
| All the beds float out to sea | S |
| All the dying lovers wave | T |
| to the other dying lovers | U |
| One of them writes on his mistress's skin as he floats | V |
| - | |
| He is the poet | B |
| Not for this | C |
| will his life be spared | B |
Erica Jong
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