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 CM2| After the college | A |
| reading | B |
| the eager | C |
| students gather | C |
| - | |
| They ask me | D |
| what you need | E |
| to be a writer | C |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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