Goading The Muse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFGHIJIKLMNOFPF QFQRSBFFFTUVFLJWXFYX JXQXWX WWFZJFQZA2O B2 C2D2FFE2F2C2 G2H2FI2JWJ2 WF| this 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| where had he gone | B2 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| as I said that was | W |
| yesterday | F |
Charles Bukowski
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