Still Life With Tulips Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGF HIJFKF LMIC DNO| Because you did I too arrange flowers | A |
| Watching the pistils just like insolent tongues | B |
| And the hard red flesh of the petals | C |
| Widening beneath my eyes They move like the hands | D |
| Of clocks seeming not to move except | E |
| When I turn my gaze then savagely | F |
| In the white room they billow and spread | G |
| Until their redness engulfs me utterly | F |
| - | |
| Mother you are far away and claim | H |
| In mournful letters that I do not need you | I |
| Yet here in this sunny room your tulips | J |
| Devour me sucking hungrily | F |
| My watery nourishment filling my house | K |
| Like a presence like an enemy | F |
| - | |
| Geared to your intervals as the small hand | L |
| Of a clock repeats the larger I | M |
| Your too faithful daughter still drag behind you | I |
| Turning in the same slow circles | C |
| - | |
| Across the years and distances my hands | D |
| Among these fierce red blossoms repeat | N |
| Your gestures I hope my daughter never writes | O |
| 'Because you did I too arrange flowers ' | - |
Erica Jong
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