Self-portrait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA B CDEFGHIBJKLKBMNMBOEP BQRQBPBBBSTUVWEX| A | |
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| After Adam Zagajewski | B |
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| I am child to no one mother to a few | C |
| wife for the long haul | D |
| On fall days I am happy | E |
| with my dying brethren the leaves | F |
| but in spring my head aches | G |
| from the flowery scents | H |
| My husband fills a room with Mozart | I |
| which I turn off embracing | B |
| the silence as if it were an empty page | J |
| waiting for me alone to fill it | K |
| He digs in the black earth | L |
| with his bare hands I scrub it | K |
| from the creases of his skin longing | B |
| for the kind of perfection | M |
| that happens in books | N |
| My house is my only heaven | M |
| A red dog sleeps at my feet dreaming | B |
| of the manic wings of flushed birds | O |
| As the road shortens ahead of me | E |
| I look over my shoulder | P |
| to where it curves back | B |
| to childhood its white line | Q |
| bisecting the real and the imagined | R |
| the way the ridgepole of the spine | Q |
| divides the two parts of the body leaving | B |
| the soft belly in the center | P |
| vulnerable to anything | B |
| As for my country it blunders along | B |
| as well intentioned as Eve choosing | B |
| cider and windfalls oblivious | S |
| to the famine soon to come | T |
| I stir pots bury my face in books or hold | U |
| a telephone to my ear as if its cord | V |
| were the umbilicus of the world | W |
| whose voices still whisper to me | E |
| even after they have left their bodies | X |
Linda Pastan
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