The Looking Glass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEDFEAGHIJEKKALM AENO| Getting a man to love you is easy | A |
| Only be honest about your wants as | B |
| Woman Stand nude before the glass with him | C |
| So that he sees himself the stronger one | D |
| And believes it so and you so much more | E |
| Softer younger lovelier Admit your | E |
| Admiration Notice the perfection | D |
| Of his limbs his eyes reddening under | F |
| The shower the shy walk across the bathroom floor | E |
| Dropping towels and the jerky way he | A |
| Urinates All the fond details that make | G |
| Him male and your only man Gift him all | H |
| Gift him what makes you woman the scent of | I |
| Long hair the musk of sweat between the breasts | J |
| The warm shock of menstrual blood and all your | E |
| Endless female hungers Oh yes getting | K |
| A man to love is easy but living | K |
| Without him afterwards may have to be | A |
| Faced A living without life when you move | L |
| Around meeting strangers with your eyes that | M |
| Gave up their search with ears that hear only | A |
| His last voice calling out your name and your | E |
| Body which once under his touch had gleamed | N |
| Like burnished brass now drab and destitute | O |
Kamala Das
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