Cut While Shaving Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFFEGDHIFJK LM GNF OPQR ST U| It's never quite right he said the way people look | A |
| the way the music sounds the way the words are | B |
| written | C |
| It's never quite right he said all the things we are | B |
| taught all the loves we chase all the deaths we | D |
| die all the lives we live | E |
| they are never quite right | F |
| they are hardly close to right | F |
| these lives we live | E |
| one after the other | G |
| piled there as history | D |
| the waste of the species | H |
| the crushing of the light and the way | I |
| it's not quite right | F |
| it's hardly right at all | J |
| he said | K |
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| don't I know it I | L |
| answered | M |
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| I walked away from the mirror | G |
| it was morning it was afternoon it was | N |
| night | F |
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| nothing changed | O |
| it was locked in place | P |
| something flashed something broke something | Q |
| remained | R |
| - | |
| I walked down the stairway and | S |
| into it | T |
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| Submitted by Tom | U |
Charles Bukowski
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