What We Want Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNGOPBPQ| What we want | A |
| is never simple | B |
| We move among the things | C |
| we thought we wanted | D |
| a face a room an open book | E |
| and these things bear our names | F |
| now they want us | G |
| But what we want appears | H |
| in dreams wearing disguises | I |
| We fall past | J |
| holding out our arms | K |
| and in the morning | L |
| our arms ache | M |
| We don't remember the dream | N |
| but the dream remembers us | G |
| It is there all day | O |
| as an animal is there | P |
| under the table | B |
| as the stars are there | P |
| even in full sun | Q |
Linda Pastan
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