Woman Enough Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCBDEF GHIIJKDEF LMNOAPKQKR SFITUV IIAWXFYZOA2K| Because my grandmother's hours | A |
| were apple cakes baking | B |
| dust motes gathering | B |
| linens yellowing | B |
| seams and hems | C |
| inevitably unraveling | B |
| I almost never keep house | D |
| though really I like houses | E |
| wish I had a clean one | F |
| - | |
| Because my mother's minutes | G |
| were sucked into the roar | H |
| of the vacuum cleaner | I |
| because she waltzed with the washer dryer | I |
| tore her hair waiting for repairmen | J |
| I send out my laundry | K |
| live in a dusty house | D |
| though really I like clean houses | E |
| as well as anyone | F |
| - | |
| I am woman enough | L |
| to love the kneading of bread | M |
| as much as the feel | N |
| of typewriter keys | O |
| under my fingers | A |
| springy springy | P |
| the smell of clean laundry | K |
| simmering soup | Q |
| are almost as dear to me | K |
| as the smell of paper and ink | R |
| - | |
| I wish there were not a choice | S |
| I wish I could be two women | F |
| I wish the days could be longer | I |
| But they are short | T |
| So I write while | U |
| the dust piles up | V |
| - | |
| I sit at my typewriter | I |
| remembering my grandmother | I |
| all my mothers | A |
| the minutes they lost | W |
| loving houses better than themselves | X |
| the man I love cleans up the kitchen | F |
| grumbling only a little | Y |
| because he knows | Z |
| that after all these centuries | O |
| it is easier for him | A2 |
| than for me | K |
Erica Jong
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