For Jane: With All The Love I Had, Which Was Not Enough: Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQQRS TFUVVWWXYZA2N| I pick up the skirt | A |
| I pick up the sparkling beads | B |
| in black | C |
| this thing that moved once | D |
| around flesh | E |
| and I call God a liar | F |
| I say anything that moved | G |
| like that | H |
| or knew | I |
| my name | J |
| could never die | K |
| in the common verity of dying | L |
| and I pick | M |
| up her lovely | N |
| dress | O |
| all her loveliness gone | P |
| and I speak to all the gods | Q |
| Jewish gods Christ gods | Q |
| chips of blinking things | R |
| idols pills bread | S |
| fathoms risks | T |
| knowledgeable surrender | F |
| rats in the gravy of two gone quite mad | U |
| without a chance | V |
| hummingbird knowledge hummingbird chance | V |
| I lean upon this | W |
| I lean on all of this | W |
| and I know | X |
| her dress upon my arm | Y |
| but | Z |
| they will not | A2 |
| give her back to me | N |
Charles Bukowski
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