Greeting Verses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CDE FGH IBJ KLJ JMN| What do I find right at the center of my interpersonal | A |
| relationships a slightly dispersed but indisputably | B |
| tinctured core of brutality go to the hospital | A |
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| the question is not whether your life is at stake | C |
| but whether you can pay the bill guaranteeing it on | D |
| admission or no admission and proving it or not getting | E |
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| out on release if any this bit of realism | F |
| clutches our floating values underneath like a bracket | G |
| under a bouquet if someone pauses to | H |
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| congratulate me on some slight nothing I see the | I |
| quiver of a curse undermine his lip he | B |
| tries to make a better world even while it crumbles in | J |
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| on him and us a brutality when I give my body to another | K |
| or take another's I sometimes fear more | L |
| body being taken than was offered an overextension | J |
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| of contract hearts and flowers scented sentiment garden | J |
| varieties greet us how lost we want to be in fictions and | M |
| fabrications a worm cores this world's doings look out | N |
Archie Randolph Ammons
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