Hospital Window Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNKOPQRS TUVWWXYZWWA2TWSB2B2W W| At gauzy dusk thin haze like cigarette smoke | A |
| ribbons past Chrysler Building's silver fins | B |
| tapering delicately needletopped Empire State's | C |
| taller antenna filmed milky lit amid blocks | D |
| black and white apartmenting veil'd sky over Manhattan | E |
| offices new built dark glassed in blueish heaven The East | F |
| 's 's covered with castles watertowers seven storied | G |
| tar topped house banks over York Avenue late may green trees | H |
| surrounding Rockefellers' blue domed medical arbor | I |
| Geodesic science at the waters edge Cars running up | J |
| East River Drive parked at N Y Hospital's oval door | K |
| where perfect tulips flower the health of a thousand sick souls | L |
| trembling inside hospital rooms Triboro bridge steel spiked | M |
| penthouse orange roofs sunset tinges the river and in a few | N |
| Bronx windows some magnesium vapor brilliances're | K |
| spotted five floors above E th St under grey painted bridge | O |
| trestles Way downstream along the river as Monet saw Thames | P |
| years ago Con Edison smokestacks th street | Q |
| Brooklyn Bridge's skeined dim in modern mists | R |
| Pipes sticking up to sky nine smokestacks huge visible | S |
| U N Building hangs under an orange crane red lights on | T |
| vertical avenues below the trees turn green at the nod | U |
| of a skull with a mild nerve ache Dim dharma I return | V |
| to this spectacle after weeks of poisoned lassitude my thighs | W |
| belly chest arms covered with poxied welts | W |
| head pains fading back of the neck right eyebrow cheek | X |
| mouth paralyzed from taking the wrong medicine sweated | Y |
| too much in the forehead helpless covered my rage from | Z |
| gorge to prostate with grinding jaw and tightening anus | W |
| not released the weeping scream of horror at robot Mayaguez | W |
| World self ton billions metal grief unloaded | A2 |
| Pnom Penh to Nakon Thanom Santiago Tehran | T |
| Fresh warm breeze in the window day's release | W |
| from pain cars float downside the bridge trestle | S |
| and uncounted building wall windows multiplied a mile | B2 |
| deep into ash delicate sky beguile | B2 |
| my empty mind A seagull passes alone wings | W |
| spread silent over roofs | W |
Allen Ginsberg
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