Goading The Muse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFGHIJIKLMNOFPF QFQRSBFFFTUVFLJWXFYX JXQXWX WWFZJFQZA2O B2 C2D2FFE2F2C2 G2H2FI2JWJ2 WFthis man used to be an | A |
interesting writer | B |
he was able to say brisk and | C |
refreshing things | D |
at the time | E |
I suggested to the editors and | C |
the critics that he was one to | F |
be watched | G |
and also that he had hardly yet been | H |
noticed | I |
and that he certainly should now be | J |
noticed | I |
this writer used some of my | K |
remarks as blurbs for his | L |
books which I didn't | M |
mind | N |
all of his publications were little | O |
chapbooks to | F |
pages | P |
mimeographed | F |
they came out at a | Q |
rapid rate | F |
perhaps three or four a | Q |
year | R |
the problem was that each | S |
chapbook seemed a little weaker | B |
than the one that preceded | F |
it | F |
but he continued to use my old | F |
blurbs | T |
my wife noticed the change | U |
in his writing | V |
too | F |
'what's happened to his | L |
writing ' she asked me | J |
'he's doing too much of it he's | W |
pushing it out forcing it ' | X |
'this stuff is bad you ought to | F |
tell him to stop using your | Y |
blurbs ' | X |
'I can't do that I just wish he | J |
wouldn't publish so much ' | X |
'well you publish all the | Q |
time too ' | X |
'with me ' I told her 'it's | W |
different ' | X |
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yesterday I received another of his | W |
little chapbooks | W |
with his delicate dedication scrawled | F |
on the title page | Z |
this latest effort was totally | J |
flat | F |
the words just fell off the | Q |
page | Z |
dead on | A2 |
arrival | O |
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where had he gone | B2 |
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too much ambition | C2 |
too much just doing it for the sake | D2 |
of doing it | F |
just not waiting for the words to | F |
pile up inside and then | E2 |
explode of their own | F2 |
volition | C2 |
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I decided then I should take a whole week | G2 |
off | H2 |
be on the safe side | F |
just shut the computer down | I2 |
forget the whole damned silly | J |
business | W |
for awhile | J2 |
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as I said that was | W |
yesterday | F |
Charles Bukowski
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