To Jon In October Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEEADAABFA AGHADD FIDJKA ACDJLMDN| Knowing our lives a drowse | A |
| towards death | B |
| attended by dogs | A |
| children | C |
| how can it not matter | D |
| that I remember | D |
| day after day | E |
| that one day | E |
| we shall lose | A |
| each other | D |
| lose the lights | A |
| in each other's eyes | A |
| to death | B |
| drift off | F |
| to other universes | A |
| - | |
| Love shall not save us | A |
| from being alone at the end | G |
| the daughter we made | H |
| in that fine high exuberance | A |
| of having found each other | D |
| shall not save us either | D |
| - | |
| We shall go off | F |
| into the ether alone | I |
| trying to remember | D |
| as the threads unravel | J |
| the brain cells turn | K |
| to fluffy cumulus clouds | A |
| - | |
| that on clear October days | A |
| like this one | C |
| when the hills were | D |
| red with maple | J |
| gold with oak | L |
| we bumped along in the Jeep | M |
| reminding each other | D |
| 'Wake up Wake up | N |
| This will not last forever ' | - |
Erica Jong
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