To Whom It May Concern Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFGH IJKLMNOBIPQKMRSMGBT UVWXAYWZWW MIMI IA2B2WC2MWD2C2 C2| In Autumn | A |
| as in Spring | B |
| the sap flows | C |
| the sap wishes to race | D |
| against heartbeats | E |
| before the winter | F |
| before the winter | F |
| buries us | G |
| in her usual shroud of ice | H |
| - | |
| I turn to you | I |
| knowing that | J |
| unrequited love | K |
| is good | L |
| for poetry | M |
| knowing that pain | N |
| will nudge the muse | O |
| as well as anything | B |
| knowing that you | I |
| are afraid fettered | P |
| to a life | Q |
| you do not love | K |
| so unfree | M |
| that freedom seems | R |
| more fearful even | S |
| than the familiar | M |
| business | G |
| of being | B |
| a grumbling slave | T |
| - | |
| I lived | U |
| that way | V |
| once | W |
| I know | X |
| that freedom | A |
| is its own reward | Y |
| that it propagates | W |
| itself | Z |
| by means | W |
| of runners | W |
| - | |
| that nobody | M |
| gives it to you | I |
| not even me | M |
| to you | I |
| - | |
| but that you | I |
| must seize it | A2 |
| with your own | B2 |
| two quaking hands | W |
| pluck | C2 |
| the strawberry | M |
| it bears | W |
| in the green | D2 |
| ungrumbling | C2 |
| - | |
| Spring | C2 |
Erica Jong
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