An Agony. As Now. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEA FFGHI GHJKKHL EMNOPQRQSTSQU GVGWX GAAI YZ IIA2| I am inside someone | A |
| who hates me I look | B |
| out from his eyes Smell | C |
| what fouled tunes come in | D |
| to his breath Love his | E |
| wretched women | A |
| - | |
| Slits in the metal for sun Where | F |
| my eyes sit turning at the cool air | F |
| the glance of light or hard flesh | G |
| rubbed against me a woman a man | H |
| without shadow or voice or meaning | I |
| - | |
| This is the enclosure flesh | G |
| where innocence is a weapon An | H |
| abstraction Touch Not mine | J |
| Or yours if you are the soul I had | K |
| and abandoned when I was blind and had | K |
| my enemies carry me as a dead man | H |
| if he is beautiful or pitied | L |
| - | |
| It can be pain As now as all his | E |
| flesh hurts me It can be that Or | M |
| pain As when she ran from me into | N |
| that forest | O |
| Or pain the mind | P |
| silver spiraled whirled against the | Q |
| sun higher than even old men thought | R |
| God would be Or pain And the other The | Q |
| yes Inside his books his fingers They | S |
| are withered yellow flowers and were never | T |
| beautiful The yes You will lost soul say | S |
| beauty ' Beauty practiced as the tree The | Q |
| slow river A white sun in its wet sentences | U |
| - | |
| Or the cold men in their gale Ecstasy Flesh | G |
| or soul The yes Their robes blown Their bowls | V |
| empty They chant at my heels not at yours Flesh | G |
| or soul as corrupt Where the answer moves too quickly | W |
| Where the God is a self after all | X |
| - | |
| Cold air blown through narrow blind eyes Flesh | G |
| white hot metal Glows as the day with its sun | A |
| It is a human love I live inside A bony skeleton | A |
| you recognize as words or simple feeling | I |
| - | |
| But it has no feeling As the metal is hot it is not | Y |
| given to love | Z |
| - | |
| It burns the thing | I |
| inside it And that thing | I |
| screams | A2 |
Amiri Baraka
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