People Who Live Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDA EFGHBIJK LMNIOPQO| People who live by the sea | A |
| understand eternity | A |
| They copy the curves of the waves | B |
| their hearts beat with the tides | C |
| the saltiness of their blood | D |
| corresponds with the sea | A |
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| They know that the house of flesh | E |
| is only a sandcastle | F |
| built on the shore | G |
| that skin breaks | H |
| under the waves | B |
| like sand under the soles | I |
| of the first walker on the beach | J |
| when the tide recedes | K |
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| Each of us walks there once | L |
| watching the bubbles | M |
| rise up through the sand | N |
| like ascending souls | I |
| tracing the line of the foam | O |
| drawing our index fingers | P |
| along the horizon | Q |
| pointing home | O |
Erica Jong
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