Smoke Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEEFG HIEJKLAE EMNO BEOPQE| Smoke it is all smoke | A |
| in the throat of eternity | B |
| For centuries the air was full of witches | C |
| Whistling up chimneys | D |
| on their spiky brooms | E |
| cackling or singing more sweetly than Circe | E |
| as they flew over rooftops | E |
| blessing cursing their | F |
| kind | G |
| - | |
| We banished burned them | H |
| making them smoke in the throat of god | I |
| we declared ourselves | E |
| enlightened | J |
| The dark age of horrors is past | K |
| said my mother to me in | L |
| seven years after our people went up in smoke | A |
| leaving a few teeth a pile of bones | E |
| - | |
| The smoke curls and beckons | E |
| It is blue lavender | M |
| green as the undersea world | N |
| It will take us too | O |
| - | |
| O let us not go sheepishly | B |
| clinging to our nakedness | E |
| But let us go like witches sucked heavenward | O |
| by the Goddess' powerful breath | P |
| whistling whistling whistling | Q |
| on our beautiful brooms | E |
Erica Jong
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