The Fork To Take Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFG HIDJ KLBMBNOPQRHK SBTUVWXYZA2 BGB2C2D2E2F2G2H2I2 OJ2K2L2 KKM2DM2KN2BO2P2 BKNDQ2 YBR2G2G2G2S2C2T2KXS2| I had pegged you as | A |
| prot g adoptee | B |
| someone I could save | C |
| - | |
| The last thing | D |
| I needed | E |
| was | F |
| another lover | G |
| - | |
| You call yourself | H |
| 'an accident | I |
| looking | D |
| for a place | J |
| to happen ' | - |
| I call you | K |
| my sweet my love | L |
| not only | B |
| because you carry knives | M |
| for me | B |
| want to beat up | N |
| all my | O |
| ex husbands | P |
| but because | Q |
| you can laugh | R |
| at yourself | H |
| for wanting to | K |
| - | |
| We dream | S |
| of the baby | B |
| we will never have | T |
| The little Jewish WASP | U |
| with golden blue eyes | V |
| poems on the tip of his tongue | W |
| your height my hair | X |
| jokes that hit | Y |
| their targets | Z |
| on a slant | A2 |
| - | |
| He will never be | B |
| in the Social Register | G |
| But will he know | B2 |
| which fork to take | C2 |
| as you did | D2 |
| when you drove | E2 |
| off my road | F2 |
| slyly taking the wrong fork | G2 |
| in order to stay | H2 |
| the night | I2 |
| - | |
| O you are sly | O |
| my sweet wheat | J2 |
| looking for | K2 |
| a harvest | L2 |
| - | |
| Shall I reap you | K |
| Shall I do to you | K |
| what the hurricane | M2 |
| does with the waving | D |
| grain | M2 |
| Shall I thresh bind you | K |
| run barefoot | N2 |
| through your body | B |
| trying to stamp out | O2 |
| death | P2 |
| - | |
| Or shall I merely | B |
| let you | K |
| lift me up | N |
| like the wind spinning | D |
| an errant seed | Q2 |
| - | |
| let it | Y |
| take me | B |
| where it will | R2 |
| right fork | G2 |
| wrong fork | G2 |
| no fork | G2 |
| at all | S2 |
| since we will take | C2 |
| the same path | T2 |
| through | K |
| the air | X |
| after all | S2 |
Erica Jong
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