The Muse Who Came To Stay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKE LHCMN HOPQRS TULLVL EWA XLYZA2S| You are the first muse who came to stay | A |
| The others began ended with a wish | B |
| or a glance or a kiss between stanzas | C |
| the others strode away in the pointed boots of their fear | D |
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| or were kicked out by the stiletto heels of mine | E |
| or merely padded away in bare feet | F |
| when the ground was too hard or cold | G |
| or as hot as white sand baked under the noonday sun | H |
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| But you flew in on the wings of your smile | I |
| powered by the engine of your cock | J |
| driven by your lonely pumping heart | K |
| rooted by your arteries to mine | E |
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| We became a tree with a double apical point | L |
| reaching equally toward what some call heaven | H |
| singing in the wind with our branches | C |
| sharing the sap syrup | M |
| which makes the trunk grow thick | N |
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| We are seeding the ground with poems children | H |
| We are the stuff of books new grown forests | O |
| We are renewing the earth with our roots | P |
| the air with our pure oxygen songs | Q |
| the nearby seas with leaves we lose | R |
| only to grow the greener ones again | S |
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| I used to leap from tree to tree | T |
| speaking glibly of Druids | U |
| thinking myself a latter day dryad | L |
| or a wood nymph from the stony city | L |
| or some other chimerical creature | V |
| conjured in my cheating poet's heart | L |
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| But now I stay knowing the muse is mine | E |
| knowing no books will banish him | W |
| no off key songs will drive him away | A |
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| I being begin I whistle in out of tune | X |
| If the ending is near I do not think of it | L |
| If the drought comes we will make our own rain | Y |
| If the muse is grounded I will make him fly | Z |
| if he falls I will catch him in my arms | A2 |
| until he flies with me again | S |
Erica Jong
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