The Dirty Laundry Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJ JKLM GNOPJ| This is the dirty laundry poem | A |
| because we have traveled from town to town | B |
| accumulating soiled linen sweaty shirts | C |
| blue jeans caked clotted with our juice | D |
| teeshirts crumpled by our gloriously messy passion | E |
| underwear made stiff by all our joy | F |
| - | |
| I have come home to wash my clothes | G |
| They patter on the bathroom floor like rain | H |
| The water drips away the days till you | I |
| The dirty water speaks to me of love | J |
| - | |
| Steamy in the bubbles of our love | J |
| I have plunged my hands into hot water | K |
| as I might plunge them | L |
| in your heart | M |
| - | |
| After years of spots splatters | G |
| I am finally coming clean | N |
| I will fly to you with a suitcase of fresh laundry | O |
| strip my clothes off heap them on the floor | P |
| let you scrub my body with your love | J |
Erica Jong
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