To Whom It May Concern Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFGH IJKLMNOBIPQKMRSMGBT UVWXAYWZWW MIMI IA2B2WC2MWD2C2 C2In 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 |
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Spring | C2 |
Erica Jong
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