Prodigal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGDHICJKLCCCDMN CCOJPQR| You could drive out of this country | A |
| and attack the world with your ambition | B |
| invent wonder plasmas | C |
| become an artist of the provocative gesture | D |
| the suggestive nod you could leave | E |
| wanting the world and return | F |
| carrying it a noisy bundle | G |
| of steam and libido a ball of fire | D |
| balanced on your tongue | H |
| you might reclaim Main Street in a limo | I |
| longer than a sermon wave at our red faces | C |
| while remembering that you were born | J |
| a clod hopper a farmer s kid | K |
| and get over that hump once and for all | L |
| by telling A Great Man s stories | C |
| the dirty jokes of dictators tidbits | C |
| of presidential hygiene insights | C |
| into the psychotropic qualities of power | D |
| and the American tradition of kissing | M |
| moneyed ass Your uncle would still | N |
| call you Roy Boy pheasants | C |
| sun themselves beside the tracks | C |
| waiting for the dew to burn off | O |
| before their first flight and corn | J |
| grow so high that if you stood | P |
| in the field you d disappear the fact | Q |
| aiming your eyes down the road | R |
Bob Hicok
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