Alive Together Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDECFGHIJKLMNOPQR STUVWLXYZA2B2XCC2AD2 E2UB2F2G2| Speaking of marvels I am alive | A |
| together with you when I might have been | B |
| alive with anyone under the sun | C |
| when I might have been Abelard's woman | C |
| or the whore of a Renaissance pope | D |
| or a peasant wife with not enough food | E |
| and not enough love with my children | C |
| dead of the plague I might have slept | F |
| in an alcove next to the man | G |
| with the golden nose who poked it | H |
| into the business of stars | I |
| or sewn a starry flag | J |
| for a general with wooden teeth | K |
| I might have been the exemplary Pocahontas | L |
| or a woman without a name | M |
| weeping in Master's bed | N |
| for my husband exchanged for a mule | O |
| my daughter lost in a drunken bet | P |
| I might have been stretched on a totem pole | Q |
| to appease a vindictive god | R |
| or left a useless girl child | S |
| to die on a cliff I like to think | T |
| I might have been Mary Shelley | U |
| in love with a wrong headed angel | V |
| or Mary's friend I might have been you | W |
| This poem is endless the odds against us are endless | L |
| our chances of being alive together | X |
| statistically nonexistent | Y |
| still we have made it alive in a time | Z |
| when rationalists in square hats | A2 |
| and hatless Jehovah's Witnesses | B2 |
| agree it is almost over | X |
| alive with our lively children | C |
| who but for endless ifs | C2 |
| might have missed out on being alive | A |
| together with marvels and follies | D2 |
| and longings and lies and wishes | E2 |
| and error and humor and mercy | U |
| and journeys and voices and faces | B2 |
| and colors and summers and mornings | F2 |
| and knowledge and tears and chance | G2 |
Lisel Mueller
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