The Man Under The Bed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI JKLLMNOPOQRS OTDUV| The man under the bed | A |
| The man who has been there for years waiting | B |
| The man who waits for my floating bare foot | C |
| The man who is silent as dustballs riding the darkness | D |
| The man whose breath is the breathing of small white butterflies | E |
| The man whose breathing I hear when I pick up the phone | F |
| The man in the mirror whose breath blackens silver | G |
| The boneman in closets who rattles the mothballs | H |
| The man at the end of the end of the line | I |
| - | |
| I met him tonight I always meet him | J |
| He stands in the amber air of a bar | K |
| When the shrimp curl like beckoning fingers | L |
| ride through the air on their toothpick skewers | L |
| When the ice cracks I am about to fall through | M |
| he arranges his face around its hollows | N |
| he opens his pupilless eyes at me | O |
| For years he has waited to drag me down | P |
| now he tells me | O |
| he has only waited to take me home | Q |
| We waltz through the street like death the maiden | R |
| We float through the wall of the wall of my room | S |
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| If he's my dream he will fold back into my body | O |
| His breath writes letters of mist on the glass of my cheeks | T |
| I wrap myself around him like the darkness | D |
| I breathe into his mouth | U |
| make him real | V |
Erica Jong
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