To The Goddess Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCDBE BFGHBIJG ABKLEBMB BBN| Goddess I come to you | A |
| my neck wreathed with rosebuds | B |
| my head filled with visions of infants | B |
| my palms open to your silver nails | B |
| my eyes open to your rays of illumination | C |
| my vagina my womb gaping | D |
| to be filled by your radiance | B |
| O goddess I would be a worthy vessel | E |
| - | |
| Impermanence all is impermanence | B |
| The cock rises to fall again | F |
| the woman fills only to empty | G |
| in a convulsion that shakes the world | H |
| the poet grows to become a voice | B |
| only to lose that voice when death takes her | I |
| A stroke cancels her upon the page | J |
| yet I open her book a chill wind blows from eternity | G |
| - | |
| Goddess I come to you | A |
| wreathed in tears in losses in whistling winds | B |
| I wrap the witch's herbs around my neck | K |
| to ward off the impermanence that is our common fate | L |
| The herbs dry crumble | E |
| as my face grows the map of my anxieties | B |
| my daughter leaps up like a vine | M |
| twining around the trellis of impermanence | B |
| - | |
| O goddess teach me to praise loss | B |
| death the passing of all things for from this flux | B |
| I know your blessings flow | N |
Erica Jong
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