Time Leak Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJJJKLMN OJPQRSARDT FDUVWDX| For centuries | A |
| we have lain like this | B |
| our warmths intermingled | C |
| our hearts beating | D |
| the same two step | E |
| our breaths | F |
| our limbs | G |
| intertwined | H |
| - | |
| Life after life | I |
| I return to flesh | J |
| to join my flesh | J |
| to your flesh | J |
| Sometimes I am the woman | K |
| you the man | L |
| sometimes | M |
| the other way around | N |
| - | |
| It hardly matters | O |
| Flesh after flesh | J |
| our spirits return | P |
| to mingle | Q |
| Death is no barrier | R |
| life's noisy matinee | S |
| where the suburban ladies | A |
| cough sputter | R |
| their programs crackle like kindling | D |
| merely goes on on | T |
| - | |
| They sit on their deaths | F |
| as if they were sitting | D |
| on fur coats | U |
| while we touch | V |
| for the first time | W |
| remembering | D |
| the next | X |
Erica Jong
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