Variations On The Word Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGBHIJKLMNOPQDR KSGTUVWXYZA2B2C2D2D2 JL| This is a word we use to plug | A |
| holes with It's the right size for those warm | B |
| blanks in speech for those red heart | C |
| shaped vacancies on the page that look nothing | D |
| like real hearts Add lace | E |
| and you can sell | F |
| it We insert it also in the one empty | G |
| space on the printed form | B |
| that comes with no instructions There are whole | H |
| magazines with not much in them | I |
| but the word love you can | J |
| rub it all over your body and you | K |
| can cook with it too How do we know | L |
| it isn't what goes on at the cool | M |
| debaucheries of slugs under damp | N |
| pieces of cardboard As for the weed | O |
| seedlings nosing their tough snouts up | P |
| among the lettuces they shout it | Q |
| Love Love sing the soldiers raising | D |
| their glittering knives in salute | R |
| - | |
| Then there's the two | K |
| of us This word | S |
| is far too short for us it has only | G |
| four letters too sparse | T |
| to fill those deep bare | U |
| vacuums between the stars | V |
| that press on us with their deafness | W |
| It's not love we don't wish | X |
| to fall into but that fear | Y |
| this word is not enough but it will | Z |
| have to do It's a single | A2 |
| vowel in this metallic | B2 |
| silence a mouth that says | C2 |
| O again and again in wonder | D2 |
| and pain a breath a finger | D2 |
| grip on a cliffside You can | J |
| hold on or let go | L |
Margaret Atwood
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