Sunday Afternoons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFG CD HHEI JJKL CD| I sit at home | A |
| at my desk alone | B |
| as I used to do | C |
| on many sunday afternoons | D |
| when you came back to me | E |
| your arms ached for me | E |
| and your arms would close me in | F |
| though they smelled of other women | G |
| - | |
| I think of you | C |
| on Sunday afternoons | D |
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| Your sweet head would bow | H |
| like a child somehow | H |
| down to me | E |
| and your hair and your eyes were wild | I |
| - | |
| We would embrace on the floor | J |
| You see my back's still sore | J |
| You knew how easily I bruised | K |
| It's a soreness I would never lose | L |
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| I think of you | C |
| on Sunday afternoons | D |
Erica Jong
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