Self-portrait In Shoulder Stand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE F GH I I E JEK L MEN DOPQR BF BIBS TSUVWX DIYZA2B B2C2UD2E2F2G2F2H2 UE2I2J2V| Old bag of bones | A |
| upside down | B |
| what are you searching for | C |
| in poetry | D |
| in meditation | E |
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| The mother you never had | F |
| - | |
| The child in you | G |
| that you did not conceive | H |
| - | |
| Death | I |
| - | |
| Ease from fear of death | I |
| - | |
| Revelation | E |
| - | |
| Dwelling in the house of clouds | J |
| where you imagine | E |
| you once lived | K |
| - | |
| 'Born alone | L |
| we depart alone ' | - |
| Someone said that | M |
| during meditation | E |
| I nearly wept | N |
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| Oh melancholy lady | D |
| behind your clown face | O |
| behind your wisecracks | P |
| how heady it is | Q |
| to let the ideas rush to your brain | R |
| - | |
| But even upside down | B |
| you are sad | F |
| - | |
| Even upside down | B |
| you think of your death | I |
| Even upside down | B |
| you curse the emptiness | S |
| - | |
| Meditating | T |
| on the immobile lotus | S |
| your mind takes flight | U |
| like a butterfly | V |
| dabbles in bloodred poppies | W |
| purple heather | X |
| - | |
| Defying gravity | D |
| defying death | I |
| what makes you think | Y |
| the body's riddle | Z |
| is better solved | A2 |
| upside down | B |
| - | |
| Blood rushes to your head | B2 |
| like images that come too fast | C2 |
| to write | U |
| After a life held in the double grips | D2 |
| of gravity time | E2 |
| after a headfirst birth | F2 |
| out of your mother's bowels | G2 |
| into the earth | F2 |
| you practice for the next | H2 |
| - | |
| You make your body light | U |
| so that in time | E2 |
| feet first | I2 |
| you will be born | J2 |
| into the sky | V |
Erica Jong
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