The Raspberries In My Driveway Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEFGHHIJKLM ANOPQRPSDCT UVCWXLY ZA2B2C2PD2 E2F2CG2H2 EMI2J2 PQD2K2L2P| Nature will bear the closest inspection She invites us to lay our eyes level with her smallest leaf and take an insect view of its plain | A |
| Thoreau | B |
| - | |
| The raspberries | C |
| in my driveway | D |
| have always | E |
| been here | F |
| for the whole eleven years | G |
| I have owned | H |
| but have not owned | H |
| this house | I |
| yet | J |
| I have never | K |
| tasted them | L |
| before | M |
| - | |
| Always on a plane | A |
| Always in the arms | N |
| of man not God | O |
| always too busy | P |
| too fretful | Q |
| too worried | R |
| to see | P |
| that all along | S |
| my driveway | D |
| are red red raspberries | C |
| for me to taste | T |
| - | |
| Shiny and red | U |
| without hairs | V |
| unlike the berries | C |
| from the market | W |
| Little jewels | X |
| I share them | L |
| with the birds | Y |
| - | |
| On one perches | Z |
| a tiny green insect | A2 |
| I blow her off | B2 |
| She flies | C2 |
| I burst the raspberry | P |
| upon my tongue | D2 |
| - | |
| In my solitude | E2 |
| I commune | F2 |
| with raspberries | C |
| with grasses | G2 |
| with the world | H2 |
| - | |
| The world was always | E |
| there before | M |
| but where | I2 |
| was I | J2 |
| - | |
| Ah raspberry | P |
| if you are so beautiful | Q |
| upon my ready tongue | D2 |
| imagine | K2 |
| what wonders | L2 |
| lie in store for me | P |
Erica Jong
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