Gamblers All Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHG IJIKKLM NOCP QRE| sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think | A |
| i I'm not going to make it i but you laugh inside | B |
| remembering all the times you've felt that way and | C |
| you walk to the bathroom do your toilet see that face | D |
| in the mirror oh my oh my oh my but you comb your hair anyway | E |
| get into your street clothes feed the cats fetch the | F |
| newspaper of horror place it on the coffee table kiss your | G |
| wife goodbye and then you are backing the car out into life itself | H |
| like millions of others you enter the arena once more | G |
| - | |
| you are on the freeway threading through traffic now | I |
| moving both towards something and towards nothing at all as you punch | J |
| the radio on and get Mozart which is something and you will somehow | I |
| get through the slow days and the busy days and the dull | K |
| days and the hateful days and the rare days all both so delightful | K |
| and so disappointing because | L |
| we are all so alike and so different | M |
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| you find the turn off drive through the most dangerous | N |
| part of town feel momentarily wonderful as Mozart works | O |
| his way into your brain and slides down along your bones and | C |
| out through your shoes | P |
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| it's been a tough fight worth fighting | Q |
| as we all drive along | R |
| betting on another day | E |
Charles Bukowski
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