The Poet As A Feeler Of Pain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKL MNOPHQ RRESTUV WXYHZA2B2 C2A2 A2AAW IIOD2 E2F2LG2RD H2| What makes a poet | A |
| - | |
| Many have tried to guess | B |
| Is it a voice | C |
| like a conduit | D |
| a plainspokenness to grief | E |
| the hairs of the head | F |
| dancing on end | G |
| the blood swarming | H |
| with the voices | I |
| of all those who have died | J |
| will die | K |
| will also be born | L |
| - | |
| Is it a catch | M |
| in the throat | N |
| that awakens the eyes | O |
| is it in the eyes themselves | P |
| or is it something | H |
| in the heart | Q |
| - | |
| I think it is pain | R |
| an openness to pain | R |
| so that the least leaf | E |
| cuts the hand | S |
| the smallest tear | T |
| cuts the cheek | U |
| like jagged crystal | V |
| - | |
| so that the world | W |
| is a sick infant | X |
| the poet its mother | Y |
| praying crooning promising | H |
| to be good | Z |
| if only the cure | A2 |
| takes | B2 |
| - | |
| There is of course | C2 |
| no cure | A2 |
| - | |
| Poetry does not cure | A2 |
| the poet | A |
| the poet | A |
| does not cure the world | W |
| - | |
| Usually he catches | I |
| the world's diseases | I |
| dies | O |
| even before his time | D2 |
| - | |
| But against all odds | E2 |
| all indifference | F2 |
| another one is born | L |
| The world must have | G2 |
| someone to feel its pain | R |
| speak of it | D |
| - | |
| The poet is that mouth | H2 |
Erica Jong
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