Paterson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFGHI JKFHHAEFHLMNAOPDE| What do I want in these rooms papered with visions of money | A |
| How much can I make by cutting my hair If I put new heels on my shoes | B |
| bathe my body reeking of masturbation and sweat layer upon layer of excrement | C |
| dried in employment bureaus magazine hallways statistical cubicles factory stairways | D |
| cloakrooms of the smiling gods of psychiatry | A |
| if in antechambers I face the presumption of department store supervisory employees | E |
| old clerks in their asylums of fat the slobs and dumbbells of the ego with money and power | F |
| to hire and fire and make and break and fart and justify their reality of wrath and rumor of wrath to wrath weary man | G |
| what war I enter and for what a prize the dead prick of commonplace obsession | H |
| harridan vision of electricity at night and daylight misery of thumb sucking rage | I |
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| I would rather go mad gone down the dark road to Mexico heroin dripping in my veins | J |
| eyes and ears full of marijuana | K |
| eating the god Peyote on the floor of a mudhut on the border | F |
| or laying in a hotel room over the body of some suffering man or woman | H |
| rather jar my body down the road crying by a diner in the Western sun | H |
| rather crawl on my naked belly over the tincans of Cincinnati | A |
| rather drag a rotten railroad tie to a Golgotha in the Rockies | E |
| rather crowned with thorns in Galveston nailed hand and foot in Los Angeles raised up to die in Denver | F |
| pierced in the side in Chicago perished and tombed in New Orleans and resurrected in somewhere on Garret Mountain | H |
| come down roaring in a blaze of hot cars and garbage | L |
| streetcorner Evangel in front of City I Tall surrounded by statues of agonized lions | M |
| with a mouthful of shit and the hair rising on my scalp | N |
| screaming and dancing in praise of Eternity annihilating the sidewalk annihilating reality | A |
| screaming and dancing against the orchestra in the destructible ballroom of the world | O |
| blood streaming from my belly and shoulders | P |
| flooding the city with its hideous ecstasy rolling over the pavements and highways | D |
| by the bayoux and forests and derricks leaving my flesh and my bones hanging on the trees | E |
Allen Ginsberg
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