Alan Dugan Telling Me I Have A Problem With Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKDLMNOPQAR LSTCUVGWICSXYZA2B2C2 LD2E2D2F2B2| He reads my latest attempt at a poem | A |
| and is silent for a long time until it feels | B |
| like that night we waited for Apollo | C |
| my mother wandering in and out of her bedroom asking | D |
| Haven't they landed yet At last | E |
| Dugan throws it on the table and says | F |
| This reads like a cheap detective novel | G |
| and I've got nothing to say about it It sits | H |
| naked and white with everyone's eyes | I |
| running over it The week before | J |
| he'd said I had a problem with time | K |
| that in my poems everything | D |
| kept happening at once In | L |
| the voice of Mission Control | M |
| told a man named Buzz | N |
| that there was a bunch of guys turning blue | O |
| down here on Earth and now I can understand | P |
| it was with anticipation not sickness Next | Q |
| Dugan says Let's move on The attempted poem | A |
| was about butterflies and my recurring desire | R |
| to return to a place I've never been | L |
| It was inspired by reading this | S |
| in a National Geographic monarchs | T |
| stream northward from winter roosts in Mexico | C |
| laying their eggs atop milkweed | U |
| to foster new generations along the way | V |
| With the old monarchs gone I took this line as the title | G |
| and all ties to the past ostensibly cut | W |
| the unimaginable happens butterflies | I |
| that have never been to that plateau in Mexico | C |
| roost there the next winter I saw this | S |
| as a metaphor for a childhood I never had | X |
| until Dugan pointed out | Y |
| that metaphor has been dead for a hundred years | Z |
| A woman new to the workshop leans | A2 |
| behind his back and whispers I like it | B2 |
| but the silence is seamless as deep | C2 |
| as outer space That night in | L |
| I could turn my head from the television and see | D2 |
| the moon | E2 |
| filling the one pane over the bed completely | D2 |
| as we waited for Neil Armstrong | F2 |
| to leave his footprints all over it | B2 |
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