Living In The Body Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFG HIJIIFFK LMNFNNAO| Body is something you need in order to stay | A |
| on this planet and you only get one | B |
| And no matter which one you get it will not | C |
| be satisfactory It will not be beautiful | D |
| enough it will not be fast enough it will | E |
| not keep on for days at a time but will | E |
| pull you down into a sleepy swamp and | F |
| demand apples and coffee and chocolate cake | G |
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| Body is a thing you have to carry | H |
| from one day into the next Always the | I |
| same eyebrows over the same eyes in the same | J |
| skin when you look in the mirror and the | I |
| same creaky knee when you get up from the | I |
| floor and the same wrist under the watchband | F |
| The changes you can make are small and | F |
| costly better to leave it as it is | K |
| - | |
| Body is a thing that you have to leave | L |
| eventually You know that because you have | M |
| seen others do it others who were once like you | N |
| living inside their pile of bones and | F |
| flesh smiling at you loving you | N |
| leaning in the doorway talking to you | N |
| for hours and then one day they | A |
| are gone No forwarding address | O |
Joyce Sutphen
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