In The Loop Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEBFFGFFHHFIBJKG FLHMNKOP| I heard from people after the shootings People | A |
| I knew well or barely or not at all Largely | B |
| the same message how horrible it was how little | A |
| there was to say about how horrible it was | C |
| People wrote called mostly e mailed | D |
| because they know I teach at Virginia Tech | E |
| to say there s nothing to say Eventually | B |
| I answered these messages there s nothing | F |
| to say back except of course there s nothing | F |
| to say thank you for your willingness | G |
| to say it Because this was about nothing | F |
| A boy who felt that he was nothing | F |
| who erased and entered that erasure and guns | H |
| that are good for nothing and talk of guns | H |
| that is good for nothing and spring | F |
| that is good for flowers and Jesus for some | I |
| and scotch for others and and for me | B |
| in this poem and that is good | J |
| for sewing the minutes together which otherwise | K |
| go about going away bereft of us and us | G |
| of them Like a scarf left on a train and nothing | F |
| like a scarf left on a train As if the train | L |
| empty of everything but a scarf still opens | H |
| its doors at every stop because this | M |
| is what a train does this is what a man does | N |
| with his hand on a lever because otherwise | K |
| why the lever why the hand and then it was over | O |
| and then it had just begun | P |
Bob Hicok
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