The Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEF GHI F JKLHIMNH OPF QRSGTUVO WDWXD YZA2B2 EC2YD2 D2YHE2Z F2| You gave me a rose | A |
| last time we met | B |
| - | |
| I told myself | C |
| if it bloomed | D |
| our love would bloom | E |
| if it died | F |
| - | |
| O I did not | G |
| consider | H |
| the possibility | I |
| - | |
| It died | F |
| - | |
| Though I cut | J |
| the stem | K |
| on a slant | L |
| as my mother | H |
| taught me | I |
| though I dropped | M |
| an aspirin | N |
| in the water | H |
| - | |
| it hung its head | O |
| like a spent cock | P |
| died | F |
| - | |
| It stands | Q |
| on my desk now | R |
| straight green stalk | S |
| blood red clot | G |
| of bud | T |
| drooping | U |
| like a hanged man's | V |
| head | O |
| - | |
| Does this mean | W |
| we are doomed | D |
| Does this mean | W |
| all lovers | X |
| are doomed | D |
| - | |
| O my love | Y |
| I have not read roses | Z |
| as amulets | A2 |
| in seven years | B2 |
| - | |
| Which doom | E |
| is worse | C2 |
| To love | Y |
| lose | D2 |
| - | |
| Or to lose | D2 |
| love | Y |
| altogether | H |
| not care | E2 |
| whether roses | Z |
| - | |
| live or die | F2 |
Erica Jong
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