To Speak Of Woe That Is In Marriage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DDEEFFGGHHIIJ| 'It is the future generation that presses into being by means of | A |
| these exuberant feelings and supersensible soap bubbles of ours ' | B |
| Schopenhauer | C |
| - | |
| 'The hot night makes us keep our bedroom windows open | D |
| Our magnolia blossoms Life begins to happen | D |
| My hopped up husband drops his home disputes | E |
| and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes | E |
| free lancing out along the razor's edge | F |
| This screwball might kill his wife then take the pledge | F |
| Oh the monotonous meanness of his lust | G |
| It's the injustice he is so unjust | G |
| whiskey blind swaggering home at five | H |
| My only thought is how to keep alive | H |
| What makes him tick Each night now I tie | I |
| ten dollars and his car key to my thigh | I |
| Gored by the climacteric of his want | J |
| he stalls above me like an elephant ' | - |
Robert Lowell
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