Without Parachutes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB BBCBDEBE EFBGBHI BEHBBJBB HBKIBLB EMNABBEB EOHHJPH A| The experience of fear is not an observer of it he is fear itself the very instrument of fear | A |
| J Krishnamurti | B |
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| In dreams I descend | B |
| into the cave of my past | B |
| a child with a morgue tag | C |
| on its toe | B |
| the terrible metal squeaking | D |
| of the morgue drawers | E |
| the chilly basement | B |
| the slam of doors | E |
| - | |
| Or else I am setting up dreamhouse | E |
| with the wife | F |
| of my second ex husband | B |
| She complains of him | G |
| with breaking sorrow | B |
| I comfort her | H |
| She only married him it seems for me | I |
| - | |
| Sometimes I wake up naked | B |
| in Beverly Hills | E |
| the table set for ten a formal dinner | H |
| a studio chief on my left side | B |
| a fabled actor on my right | B |
| Across the table | J |
| Greta Garbo Scott Fitzgerald | B |
| John F Kennedy Marilyn Monroe | B |
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| I alone not properly dressed for dinner | H |
| besides unprepared | B |
| for the final exam | K |
| in which our immortality | I |
| will be tested | B |
| one of us shall perish | L |
| as dessert | B |
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| Send parachutes kisses | E |
| Send them quick | M |
| I am descending into the cave | N |
| of my own fear | A |
| My feet are weighted | B |
| with the leg irons of the past | B |
| The elevator plummets | E |
| in the shaft | B |
| - | |
| trapped trapped in the bowels | E |
| of my dream | O |
| locked in the cellar | H |
| by myself the jailer | H |
| Rats and spiders scuttle | J |
| through the coal bin | P |
| I cower in the corner | H |
| - | |
| I am fear | A |
Erica Jong
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