Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHE IDEEBJKLMEBN ODDPEEEEEHGQEREEST AUEV EDGWXEEPYZA2EDB2| I love to go to sleep | A |
| When bed takes me like a lover | B |
| wrapping my limbs in | C |
| cool linen soothing | D |
| the fretfulness | E |
| of day glaring like | F |
| the Cyclops' eye | G |
| in a forehead | H |
| of furrows | E |
| - | |
| But I wake | I |
| always reluctantly brushing | D |
| the dreamcrumbs | E |
| from my lids | E |
| walking sideways underwater | B |
| like a crab | J |
| spilling coffee | K |
| knocking the mug | L |
| to the floor | M |
| where it shatters | E |
| in a muddy river | B |
| to my continuo of | N |
| 'Shit shit shit ' | - |
| - | |
| What if death | O |
| is only a forgetting | D |
| to wake in the morning | D |
| a dream that goes on | P |
| into other corridors | E |
| other chambers | E |
| draped with other silks | E |
| libraries of unwritten books | E |
| whose caleidoscopic pages | E |
| can be read | H |
| only by the pinneal eye | G |
| music that can only be heard | Q |
| by the seventh sense | E |
| or the eighth or ninth | R |
| until we possess | E |
| an infinity of senses | E |
| none of them | S |
| dependent on flesh | T |
| - | |
| What if our love of sleep | A |
| is only a foretaste | U |
| of the bliss that awaits us | E |
| when we do not have to wake again | V |
| - | |
| What frightens us so | E |
| about falling | D |
| To dropp the body and fly | G |
| should be as natural | W |
| as drifting into a dream | X |
| But we are insomniacs | E |
| tossing on soaked sheets | E |
| hanging on | P |
| to our intricate pain | Y |
| while God with her sweet | Z |
| Mona Lisa smile | A2 |
| sings lullabyes | E |
| the ears of the living | D |
| cannot hear | B2 |
Erica Jong
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