Sailing Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFDGFH IFJKLFMFNOB PFFQFDRNF SFTF| In the redwood house sailing off | A |
| into the ocean | B |
| I sleep with you | C |
| our dreams mingling | D |
| our breath coming going | D |
| like gusts of wind | E |
| trifling with the breakers | F |
| our arms touching | D |
| our legs our hair | G |
| reaching out like tendrils | F |
| to intertwine | H |
| - | |
| The first time | I |
| I slept in your arms | F |
| I knew I had come home | J |
| Your body was a ship | K |
| I rocked in it | L |
| utterly safe in the breakers | F |
| utterly sure of this love | M |
| I fit into your arms | F |
| as a ship fits into water | N |
| as a cactus roots in sand | O |
| as the sun nestles into the blazing horizon | B |
| - | |
| The house sails all night | P |
| Our dreams are the flags | F |
| of little ships | F |
| your penis the mast | Q |
| of one of the breeziest sailboats | F |
| my breasts floating | D |
| half in half out | R |
| of the water | N |
| are like messages in bottles | F |
| - | |
| There is no point to this poem | S |
| What the sea loses | F |
| always turns up again | T |
| it is only a question of shores | F |
Erica Jong
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