What You Need To Be A Writer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEC FDGBDHIJKC LMN OP BNQFDH HLRSTU VDWMXYBL ZFA2 B2ZCBZBC2ZZZBZ LD2E2 DCE BE2 BF2LG2 BH2I2J2 K2JL2 CM2After the college | A |
reading | B |
the eager | C |
students gather | C |
- | |
They ask me | D |
what you need | E |
to be a writer | C |
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I feeling flippant | F |
jaunty | D |
because | G |
I am wearing | B |
an th century | D |
dress | H |
think | I |
myself in love | J |
again | K |
answer | C |
- | |
'Mazel | L |
determination | M |
talent true | N |
grit ' | - |
- | |
I even | O |
believe it | P |
- | |
looking | B |
as I do | N |
like an | Q |
advertisement | F |
for easy | D |
success | H |
- | |
designer dress | H |
sly smile | L |
on my lips | R |
silver boots | S |
from | T |
Oz | U |
- | |
Suppose | V |
they saw me | D |
my eyes | W |
swollen | M |
like sponges | X |
my hand | Y |
shaking | B |
with betrayal | L |
- | |
my fear | Z |
rampant | F |
in the dark | A2 |
- | |
Suppose they saw | B2 |
the fear | Z |
of never | C |
writing | B |
the fear | Z |
of being | B |
alone | C2 |
the money fear | Z |
the fear fear | Z |
the fear | Z |
of succumbing | B |
to fear | Z |
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then there's all | L |
I did | D2 |
not say | E2 |
- | |
to be | D |
a writer | C |
what you need | E |
is | - |
- | |
something | B |
to say | E2 |
- | |
something | B |
that burns | F2 |
like a hot coal | L |
in your gut | G2 |
- | |
something | B |
that pounds | H2 |
like a pump | I2 |
in your groin | J2 |
- | |
the courage | K2 |
to love | J |
like a wound | L2 |
- | |
that never | C |
heals | M2 |
Erica Jong
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