Playing With The Boys Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHAH D IJKL LMMN OHPAQL M RSLPTM| All the boring tedious young men | A |
| with dead eyes dirty hair | B |
| all the mad young men who hate their mothers | C |
| all the squalling baby boys | D |
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| have grown up | E |
| now write book reviews | F |
| or novels about the life | G |
| of the knife fighter | H |
| or movies in which grown men | A |
| torture each other | H |
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| all the squalling boring baby boys | D |
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| I am not part of their game | I |
| I have no penis | J |
| I have a pen two eyes | K |
| I bleed monthly | L |
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| When the moon shines on the sea | L |
| I see the babies | M |
| riding on the moonwaves | M |
| asking to be born | N |
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| Does everything else in nature hate | O |
| its mother | H |
| Does the chick fling | P |
| bits of eggshell at the hen | A |
| Does the pear spit | Q |
| its seeds against the pear tree | L |
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| Who made all these squalling baby boys | M |
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| I am a reasonable hardworking woman | R |
| I sit at my desk write | S |
| from eight to three | L |
| When I emerge I do not ask your blessing | P |
| What have I done but bleed | T |
| to get your curse | M |
Erica Jong
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