We Learned Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB ACDEFGH CICJAKLM NNNNOPQR RKSPA TUVW XA YZA2B2 C2D2 E2C2| The decorum of fire | A |
| Pablo Neruda | B |
| - | |
| We learned the decorum of fire | A |
| the flame's curious symmetry | C |
| the blue heat at the center of the thighs | D |
| the flickering red of the hips | E |
| the tallow gold of the breasts | F |
| lit from within | G |
| by the lantern in the ribs | H |
| - | |
| You tear yourself out of me | C |
| like a branch that longs to be grafted | I |
| onto a fruit tree | C |
| peach pear | J |
| crossed with each other | A |
| fig banana served on one plate | K |
| the leaf the luminous snail | L |
| that clings to it | M |
| - | |
| We learned that the tearing | N |
| could be a joining | N |
| that the fire's flickering | N |
| could be a kindling | N |
| that the old decorum of love | O |
| to die into the poem | P |
| leaving the lover lonely with her pen | Q |
| was all an ancient lie | R |
| - | |
| So we banished the evil eye | R |
| you have to be unhappy to create | K |
| you have to let love die before it writes | S |
| you have to lose the joy to have the poem | P |
| we re wrote our lives with fire | A |
| - | |
| See this manuscript covered | T |
| with flesh colored words | U |
| It was written in invisible ink | V |
| held up to our flame | W |
| - | |
| The words darkened on the page | X |
| as we sank into each other | A |
| - | |
| We are ink blood | Y |
| all things that make stains | Z |
| We turn each other golden as we turn | A2 |
| browning each other's skins like suns | B2 |
| - | |
| Hold me up to the light | C2 |
| you will see poems | D2 |
| - | |
| Hold me in the dark | E2 |
| you will see light | C2 |
Erica Jong
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