German Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLGMN OPGGQRSTGUVVWXYVZSWS A2B2UC2S| being the German kid in the 's in Los Angeles | A |
| was difficult | B |
| there was much anti German feeling then | C |
| a carry over from World War | D |
| gangs of kids chased me through the neighborhood | E |
| yelling 'Hieneie Hieneie Hienie ' | F |
| they never caught me | G |
| I was like a cat | H |
| I knew all the paths through brush and alleys | I |
| I scaled foot back fences in a flash and was off through | J |
| backyards and around blocks | K |
| and onto garage roofs and other hiding places | L |
| then too they didn't really want to catch me | G |
| they were afraid I might bayonet them | M |
| or gouge out their eyes | N |
| - | |
| this went on for about months | O |
| then all of a sudden it seemed to stop | P |
| I was more or less accepted but never really | G |
| which was all right with me | G |
| those sons of bitches were Americans | Q |
| they and their parents had been born here | R |
| they had names like Jones and Sullivan and | S |
| Baker | T |
| they were pale and often fat with runny | G |
| noses and big belt buckles | U |
| I decided never to become an American | V |
| my hero was Baron Manfred von Richthofen | V |
| the German air ace | W |
| he'd shot down of their best | X |
| and there was nothing they could do about | Y |
| that now | V |
| their parents didn't like my parents | Z |
| I didn't either and | S |
| I decided when I got big I'd go live in some place | W |
| like Iceland | S |
| never open my door to anybody and live on my | A2 |
| luck live with a beautiful wife and a bunch of wild | B2 |
| animals | U |
| which is more or less what | C2 |
| happened | S |
Charles Bukowski
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