Greeting Verses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABA CDE FGH IBJ KLJ JMN

What do I find right at the center of my interpersonalA
relationships a slightly dispersed but indisputablyB
tinctured core of brutality go to the hospitalA
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the question is not whether your life is at stakeC
but whether you can pay the bill guaranteeing it onD
admission or no admission and proving it or not gettingE
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out on release if any this bit of realismF
clutches our floating values underneath like a bracketG
under a bouquet if someone pauses toH
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congratulate me on some slight nothing I see theI
quiver of a curse undermine his lip heB
tries to make a better world even while it crumbles inJ
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on him and us a brutality when I give my body to anotherK
or take another's I sometimes fear moreL
body being taken than was offered an overextensionJ
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of contract hearts and flowers scented sentiment gardenJ
varieties greet us how lost we want to be in fictions andM
fabrications a worm cores this world's doings look outN

A. R. Ammons



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