Homework Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKEFHLMNOPQ| Homage to Kenneth Koch | A |
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| If I were doing my Laundry I'd wash my dirty Iran | B |
| I'd throw in my United States and pour on the Ivory Soap | C |
| scrub up Africa put all the birds and elephants back in | D |
| the jungle | E |
| I'd wash the Amazon river and clean the oily Carib Gulf of Mexico | F |
| Rub that smog off the North Pole wipe up all the pipelines in Alaska | G |
| Rub a dub dub for Rocky Flats and Los Alamos Flush that sparkly | H |
| Cesium out of Love Canal | I |
| Rinse down the Acid Rain over the Parthenon Sphinx Drain the Sludge | J |
| out of the Mediterranean basin make it azure again | K |
| Put some blueing back into the sky over the Rhine bleach the little | E |
| Clouds so snow return white as snow | F |
| Cleanse the Hudson Thames Neckar Drain the Suds out of Lake Erie | H |
| Then I'd throw big Asia in one giant Load wash out the blood | L |
| Agent Orange | M |
| Dump the whole mess of Russia and China in the wringer squeeze out | N |
| the tattletail Gray of U S Central American police state | O |
| put the planet in the drier let it sit minutes or an | P |
| Aeon till it came out clean | Q |
Allen Ginsberg
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