Nightclub Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHHIAJGK LEMNOPQFRNSETUCVW HXYZA2B2C2HD2E2F2B2F B2G2| You are so beautiful and I am a fool | A |
| to be in love with you | B |
| is a theme that keeps coming up | C |
| in songs and poems | D |
| There seems to be no room for variation | E |
| I have never heard anyone sing | F |
| I am so beautiful | G |
| and you are a fool to be in love with me | H |
| even though this notion has surely | H |
| crossed the minds of women and men alike | I |
| You are so beautiful too bad you are a fool | A |
| is another one you don't hear | J |
| Or you are a fool to consider me beautiful | G |
| That one you will never hear guaranteed | K |
| - | |
| For no particular reason this afternoon | L |
| I am listening to Johnny Hartman | E |
| whose dark voice can curl around | M |
| the concepts on love beauty and foolishness | N |
| like no one else's can | O |
| It feels like smoke curling up from a cigarette | P |
| someone left burning on a baby grand piano | Q |
| around three o'clock in the morning | F |
| smoke that billows up into the bright lights | R |
| while out there in the darkness | N |
| some of the beautiful fools have gathered | S |
| around little tables to listen | E |
| some with their eyes closed | T |
| others leaning forward into the music | U |
| as if it were holding them up | C |
| or twirling the loose ice in a glass | V |
| slipping by degrees into a rhythmic dream | W |
| - | |
| Yes there is all this foolish beauty | H |
| borne beyond midnight | X |
| that has no desire to go home | Y |
| especially now when everyone in the room | Z |
| is watching the large man with the tenor sax | A2 |
| that hangs from his neck like a golden fish | B2 |
| He moves forward to the edge of the stage | C2 |
| and hands the instrument down to me | H |
| and nods that I should play | D2 |
| So I put the mouthpiece to my lips | E2 |
| and blow into it with all my living breath | F2 |
| We are all so foolish | B2 |
| my long bebop solo begins by saying | F |
| so damn foolish | B2 |
| we have become beautiful without even knowing it | G2 |
Billy Collins
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