Traveling Dream Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD DEFG HIJK LMNO PQRD BSTU VWXD YZA2B2| I am packing to go to the airport | A |
| but somehow I am never packed | B |
| I keep remembering more things | C |
| I keep forgetting | D |
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| Secretly the clock is bolting | D |
| forward ten minutes at a click | E |
| instead of one Each time | F |
| I look away it jumps | G |
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| Now I remember I have to find | H |
| the cats I have four cats | I |
| even when I am asleep | J |
| One is on the bed and I slip | K |
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| her into the suitcase | L |
| One is under the sofa I | M |
| drag him out But the tabby | N |
| in the suitcase has vanished | O |
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| Now my tickets have run away | P |
| Maybe the cat has my tickets | Q |
| I can only find one cat | R |
| My purse has gone into hiding | D |
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| Now it is time to get packed | B |
| I take the suitcase down | S |
| There is a cat in it but no clothes | T |
| My tickets are floating in the bath | U |
| - | |
| tub full of water I dry them | V |
| One cat is in my purse | W |
| but my wallet has dissolved | X |
| The tickets are still dripping | D |
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| I look at the clock as it leaps | Y |
| forward and see I have missed | Z |
| my plane My bed is gone now | A2 |
| There is one cat the size of a sofa | B2 |
Marge Piercy
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