You Hate The Telephone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP CGQRSBETUVWXYGZLBA2 B2C2D2JVLE2KF2G2LH2 I2J2K2L2M2| You hate the telephone | A |
| but will not see me | B |
| face to face | C |
| so I am left | D |
| beseeching you | E |
| long distance | F |
| trying to thread our love | G |
| along the telephone poles | H |
| of Vermont | I |
| trying to tunnel it | J |
| under the Atlantic | K |
| as if it were | L |
| a rare fossil | M |
| I'd unearthed | N |
| or an offshore pipe | O |
| bearing precious oil | P |
| - | |
| But it is your face | C |
| I love | G |
| your funny grin | Q |
| that now seems | R |
| cruel around the edges | S |
| You do not wish to be | B |
| cruel you | E |
| the kindest person in the world | T |
| but driven to curious | U |
| rages | V |
| when you feel | W |
| pressured frustrated | X |
| saddled with | Y |
| an albatross of love | G |
| like an ancient | Z |
| mariner | L |
| who tells his same sad story | B |
| to the wedding guests | A2 |
| - | |
| The telephone will not | B2 |
| suffice | C2 |
| Coleridge would have | D2 |
| loathed it | J |
| so would his | V |
| mariner | L |
| It is our modern | E2 |
| Person from Porlock | K |
| interrupting poems | F2 |
| interrupting loves | G2 |
| forever | L |
| keeping us at arm's length | H2 |
| - | |
| I would look you in the eye | I2 |
| again saying yes yes yes | J2 |
| we have said no enough | K2 |
| for the rest | L2 |
| of many lifetimes | M2 |
Erica Jong
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