Bluebird Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFABGHIJAKL ABCMNOPJQOABBRSLETUV CWXAYZFA2B2FF| there's a bluebird in my heart that | A |
| wants to get out | B |
| but I'm too tough for him | C |
| I say stay in there I'm not going | D |
| to let anybody see | E |
| you | F |
| there's a bluebird in my heart that | A |
| wants to get out | B |
| but I pour whiskey on him and inhale | G |
| cigarette smoke | H |
| and the whores and the bartenders | I |
| and the grocery clerks | J |
| never know that | A |
| he's | K |
| in there | L |
| - | |
| there's a bluebird in my heart that | A |
| wants to get out | B |
| but I'm too tough for him | C |
| I say | M |
| stay down do you want to mess | N |
| me up | O |
| you want to screw up the | P |
| works | J |
| you want to blow my book sales in | Q |
| Europe | O |
| there's a bluebird in my heart that | A |
| wants to get out | B |
| but I'm too clever I only let him out | B |
| at night sometimes | R |
| when everybody's asleep | S |
| I say I know that you're there | L |
| so don't be | E |
| sad | T |
| then I put him back | U |
| but he's singing a little | V |
| in there I haven't quite let him | C |
| die | W |
| and we sleep together like | X |
| that | A |
| with our | Y |
| secret pact | Z |
| and it's nice enough to | F |
| make a man | A2 |
| weep but I don't | B2 |
| weep do | F |
| you | F |
Charles Bukowski
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