Short Speech To My Friends Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFAGH AIJKLAMAAN OPQRSITUUVWOXOGYZ A2B2MRC2D2 IOIOE2F2A political art let it be | A |
tenderness low strings the fingers | B |
touch or the width of autumn | C |
climbing wider avenues among the virtue | D |
and dignity of knowing what city | A |
you're in who to talk to what clothes | E |
even what buttons to wear I address | F |
the society | A |
the image of | G |
common utopia | H |
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The perversity | A |
of separation isolation | I |
after so many years of trying to enter their kingdoms | J |
now they suffer in tears these others saxophones whining | K |
through the wooden doors of their less than gracious homes | L |
The poor have become our creators The black The thoroughly | A |
ignorant | M |
Let the combination of morality | A |
and inhumanity | A |
begin | N |
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Is power the enemy Destroyer | O |
of dawns cool flesh of valentines among | P |
the radios pauses drunks | Q |
of the th century I see it | R |
as any man's single history All the possible heroes | S |
dead from heat exhaustion | I |
at the beach | T |
or hiding for years from cameras | U |
only to die cheaply in the pages | U |
of our daily lie | V |
One hero | W |
has pretensions toward literature | O |
one toward the cultivation of errors arrogance | X |
and constantly changing disguises as trucker boxer | O |
valet barkeep in the aging taverns of memory Making love | G |
to those speedy heroines of masturbation or kicking literal evil | Y |
continually down filmy public stairs | Z |
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A compromise | A2 |
would be silence To shut up even such risk | B2 |
as the proper placement | M |
of verbs and nouns To freeze the spit | R |
in mid air as it aims itself | C2 |
at some valiant intellectual's face | D2 |
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There would be someone | I |
who would understand for whatever | O |
fancy reason Dead lying Roi as your children | I |
cane up would also rise As George Armstrong Custer | O |
these years has never made | E2 |
a mistake | F2 |
Amiri Baraka
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