Flying Inside Your Own Body Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGHIJKLMHNN| Your lungs fill spread themselves | A |
| wings of pink blood and your bones | B |
| empty themselves and become hollow | C |
| When you breathe in you ll lift like a balloon | D |
| and your heart is light too huge | E |
| beating with pure joy pure helium | F |
| The sun s white winds blow through you | G |
| there s nothing above you | G |
| you see the earth now as an oval jewel | H |
| radiant seablue with love | I |
| It s only in dreams you can do this | J |
| Waking your heart is a shaken fist | K |
| a fine dust clogs the air you breathe in | L |
| the sun s a hot copper weight pressing straight | M |
| down on the think pink rind of your skull | H |
| It s always the moment just before gunshot | N |
| You try try to rise but you cannot | N |
Margaret Atwood
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