Balboa, The Entertainer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJIKILMNOPQR STUVWDXYZA2EB2C2| It cannot come | A |
| except you make it | B |
| from materials | C |
| it is not | D |
| caught from The philosophers | E |
| of need of which | F |
| I am lately | G |
| one | H |
| will tell you The People | I |
| and not think themselves | J |
| liable | I |
| to the same | K |
| trembling flesh I say now The People | I |
| as some lesson repeated now | L |
| the lights are off to myself | M |
| as a lover or at the cold wind | N |
| Let my poems be a graph | O |
| of me And they keep | P |
| to the line where flesh | Q |
| drops off You will go | R |
| blank at the middle A | S |
| dead man | T |
| But | U |
| die soon Love If | V |
| what you have for | W |
| yourself does not | D |
| stretch to your body s | X |
| end | Y |
| Where without | Z |
| preface | A2 |
| music trails or your fingers | E |
| slip | B2 |
| from my arm | C2 |
Amiri Baraka
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