Nagasaki Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEFGHIJKLMENODP A Q RIS TUV WXYZ A2 B2C2D2 E2 I F2G2H2E2HGV EI2GJ2DV K2L2M2 E2 N2 O2P2B Q2R2S2V E2 T2 S2DK2U2G2EV2W2 M2| I A Pleasant Afternoon | A |
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| for Michael Brownstein and Dick Gallup | B |
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| One day poets and ears sat under a green striped Chau | C |
| tauqua tent in Aurora | D |
| listening to Black spirituals tapping their feet appreciating | E |
| words singing by in mountain winds | F |
| on a pleasant sunny day of rest the wild wind blew thru | G |
| blue Heavens | H |
| filled with fluffy clouds stretched from Central City to Rocky | I |
| Flats Plutonium sizzled in its secret bed | J |
| hot dogs sizzled in the Lion's Club lunchwagon microwave | K |
| mouth orangeade bubbled over in waxen cups | L |
| Traffic moved along Colefax meditators silent in the Diamond | M |
| Castle shrine room at Boulder followed the breath going | E |
| out of their nostrils | N |
| Nobody could remember anything spirits flew out of mouths | O |
| amp noses out of the sky across Colorado plains amp the | D |
| tent flapped happily open spacious amp didn't fall down | P |
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| June | A |
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| II Peace Protest | Q |
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| Cumulus clouds float across blue sky | R |
| over the white walled Rockwell Corporation factory | I |
| am I going to stop that | S |
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| Rocky Mountains rising behind us | T |
| Denver shining in morning light | U |
| Led away from the crowd by police and photographers | V |
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| Middleaged Ginsberg and Ellsberg taken down the road | W |
| to the greyhaired Sheriff's van | X |
| But what about Einstein What about Einstein Hey Einstein | Y |
| Come back | Z |
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| III Golden Courthouse | A2 |
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| Waiting for the Judge breathing silent | B2 |
| Prisoners witnesses Police | C2 |
| the stenographer yawns into her palms | D2 |
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| August | E2 |
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| IV Everybody's Fantasy | I |
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| I walked outside amp the bomb'd | F2 |
| dropped lots of plutonium | G2 |
| all over the Lower East Side | H2 |
| There weren't any buildings left just | E2 |
| iron skeletons | H |
| groceries burned potholes open to | G |
| stinking sewer waters | V |
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| There were people starving and crawling | E |
| across the desert | I2 |
| the Martian UFOs with blue | G |
| Light destroyer rays | J2 |
| passed over and dried up all the | D |
| waters | V |
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| Charred Amazon palmtrees for | K2 |
| hundreds of miles on both sides | L2 |
| of the river | M2 |
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| August | E2 |
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| V Waiting Room at the Rocky Flats Plutonium Plant | N2 |
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| Give us the weapons we need to protect ourselves | O2 |
| the bareheaded guard lifts his flyswatter above the desk | P2 |
| whap | B |
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| A green letter'd shield on the pressboard wall | Q2 |
| Life is fragile Handle with care | R2 |
| My Goodness here's where they make the nuclear bomb | S2 |
| triggers | V |
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| August | E2 |
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| VI Numbers in Red Notebook | T2 |
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| killed in Vietnam | S2 |
| refugees in Indochina | D |
| years for the Galaxy to revolve on its core | K2 |
| the Babylonian Great Year | U2 |
| half life of plutonium | G2 |
| the most I ever got for a poetry reading | E |
| dolphins killed in the dragnet | V2 |
| years earth been born | W2 |
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| Summer | M2 |
Allen Ginsberg
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