I Go Back To The House For A Book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDBFGHIJKLMNOALP NHQRSTKKUVWADXUYB| I turn around on the gravel | A |
| and go back to the house for a book | B |
| something to read at the doctor s office | C |
| and while I am inside running the finger | D |
| of inquisition along a shelf | E |
| another me that did not bother | D |
| to go back to the house for a book | B |
| heads out on his own | F |
| rolls down the driveway | G |
| and swings left toward town | H |
| a ghost in his ghost car | I |
| another knot in the string of time | J |
| a good three minutes ahead of me | K |
| a spacing that will now continue | L |
| for the rest of my life | M |
| Sometimes I think I see him | N |
| a few people in front of me on a line | O |
| or getting up from a table | A |
| to leave the restaurant just before I do | L |
| slipping into his coat on the way out the door | P |
| But there is no catching him | N |
| no way to slow him down | H |
| and put us back in synch | Q |
| unless one day he decides to go back | R |
| to the house for something | S |
| but I cannot imagine | T |
| for the life of me what that might be | K |
| He is out there always before me | K |
| blazing my trail invisible scout | U |
| hound that pulls me along | V |
| shade I am doomed to follow | W |
| my perfect double | A |
| only bumped an inch into the future | D |
| and not nearly as well versed as I | X |
| in the love poems of Ovid | U |
| I who went back to the house | Y |
| that fateful winter morning and got the book | B |
Billy Collins
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