The Other Side Of The Page Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB ACCDE CCC F GHIJKL HMNOK CP AMQR ST UCV WXAM VYZ A2 A| I pass to the other side of the page | A |
| Pablo Neruda | B |
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| On the other side of the page | A |
| where the last days go | C |
| where the lost poems go | C |
| where the forgotten dreams | D |
| breaking up like morning fog | E |
| - | |
| go | C |
| go | C |
| go | C |
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| I am preparing myself for death | F |
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| I am teaching myself emptiness | G |
| the gambler's hunger for love | H |
| the nun's hunger for God | I |
| the child's hunger for chocolate | J |
| in the brown hours | K |
| of the dark | L |
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| I am teaching myself love | H |
| the lean love of marble | M |
| kissed away by rain | N |
| the cold kisses of snow crystals | O |
| on granite grave markers | K |
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| the soul kisses of snow | C |
| as it melts in the spring | P |
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| On the other side of the page | A |
| I lie making a snow angel | M |
| with the arcs | Q |
| of my arms | R |
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| I lie like a fallen skier | S |
| who never wants to get up | T |
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| I lie with my poles my pens | U |
| flung around me in the snow | C |
| too far to reach | V |
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| The snow seeps | W |
| into the hollows of my bones | X |
| the calcium white of the page | A |
| silts me in like a fossil | M |
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| I am fixed in my longing for speech | V |
| I am buried in the snowbank of my poems | Y |
| I am here where you find me | Z |
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| dead | A2 |
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| on the other side of the page | A |
Erica Jong
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