Friends Within The Darkness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJ KLM CLNOPQRSS AT UABVWXMYZ K| I can remember starving in a | A |
| small room in a strange city | B |
| shades pulled down listening to | C |
| classical music | D |
| I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife | E |
| inside | F |
| because there was no alternative except to hide as long | G |
| as possible | H |
| not in self pity but with dismay at my limited chance | I |
| trying to connect | J |
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| the old composers Mozart Bach Beethoven | K |
| Brahms were the only ones who spoke to me and | L |
| they were dead | M |
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| finally starved and beaten I had to go into | C |
| the streets to be interviewed for low paying and | L |
| monotonous | N |
| jobs | O |
| by strange men behind desks | P |
| men without eyes men without faces | Q |
| who would take away my hours | R |
| break them | S |
| piss on them | S |
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| now I work for the editors the readers the | A |
| critics | T |
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| but still hang around and drink with | U |
| Mozart Bach Brahms and the | A |
| Bee | B |
| some buddies | V |
| some men | W |
| sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone | X |
| are the dead | M |
| rattling the walls | Y |
| that close us in | Z |
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| Anonymous submission | K |
Charles Bukowski
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