Flophouse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGCHICCCCJJKLJC DCMNJCCOCBICJCJJPQIP JRJSCCCLJTJJRCCRCUQK UVCWWHJKJ JBCJXCCBGY JIFQDCJJWCJJHLJJZ| you haven't lived | A |
| until you've been in a | B |
| flophouse | C |
| with nothing but one | D |
| light bulb | E |
| and men | F |
| squeezed together | G |
| on cots | C |
| with everybody | H |
| snoring | I |
| at once | C |
| and some of those | C |
| snores | C |
| so | C |
| deep and | J |
| gross and | J |
| unbelievable | K |
| dark | L |
| snotty | J |
| gross | C |
| subhuman | D |
| wheezings | C |
| from hell | M |
| itself | N |
| your mind | J |
| almost breaks | C |
| under those | C |
| death like | O |
| sounds | C |
| and the | B |
| intermingling | I |
| odors | C |
| hard | J |
| unwashed socks | C |
| pissed and | J |
| shitted | J |
| underwear | P |
| and over it all | Q |
| slowly circulating | I |
| air | P |
| much like that | J |
| emanating from | R |
| uncovered | J |
| garbage | S |
| cans | C |
| and those | C |
| bodies | C |
| in the dark | L |
| fat and | J |
| thin | T |
| and | J |
| bent | J |
| some | R |
| legless | C |
| armless | C |
| some | R |
| mindless | C |
| and worst of | U |
| all | Q |
| the total | K |
| absence of | U |
| hope | V |
| it shrouds | C |
| them | W |
| covers them | W |
| totally | H |
| it's not | J |
| bearable | K |
| you get | J |
| up | - |
| go out | J |
| walk the | B |
| streets | C |
| up and | J |
| down | X |
| sidewalks | C |
| past buildings | C |
| around the | B |
| corner | G |
| and back | Y |
| up | - |
| the samestreet | J |
| thinking | I |
| those men | F |
| were all | Q |
| children | D |
| once | C |
| what has happened | J |
| to | J |
| them | W |
| and what has | C |
| happened | J |
| to | J |
| me | H |
| it's dark | L |
| and cold | J |
| out | J |
| here | Z |
Charles Bukowski
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