My Computer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD DEFG HIB AJKLDM ANOAB PQRSABCCRDTUPVWIABXY X ZXIA2B B2C2D2BD2 DB2E2ABF2G2 H2I2KRAB S C J2I2 HPVXK2DL2M2CDN2BO2BB| what they say you got a | A |
| computer | B |
| - | |
| it's like I have sold out to | C |
| the enemy | D |
| - | |
| I had no idea so many | D |
| people were prejudiced | E |
| against | F |
| computers | G |
| - | |
| even two editors have | H |
| written me letters about | I |
| the computer | B |
| - | |
| one disparaged the | A |
| computer in a mild and | J |
| superior way | K |
| the other seemed | L |
| genuinely | D |
| pissed | M |
| - | |
| I am aware that a | A |
| computer can't create | N |
| a poem | O |
| but neither can a | A |
| typewriter | B |
| - | |
| yet still once or | P |
| twice a week | Q |
| I hear | R |
| what | S |
| you have a | A |
| computer | B |
| you | C |
| yes I do | C |
| and I sit up here | R |
| almost every | D |
| night | T |
| sometimes with | U |
| beer or | P |
| wine | V |
| sometimes | W |
| without | I |
| and I work the | A |
| computer | B |
| the damn thing | X |
| even corrects | Y |
| my spelling | X |
| - | |
| and the poems | Z |
| come flying | X |
| out | I |
| better than | A2 |
| ever | B |
| - | |
| I have no | B2 |
| idea what causes | C2 |
| all this | D2 |
| computer | B |
| prejudice | D2 |
| - | |
| me | D |
| I want to go | B2 |
| the next step | E2 |
| beyond the | A |
| computer | B |
| I'm sure it's | F2 |
| there | G2 |
| - | |
| and when I get | H2 |
| it | I2 |
| they'll say | K |
| hey you hear | R |
| Chinaski got a | A |
| space biter | B |
| - | |
| what | S |
| - | |
| yes it's true | C |
| - | |
| I can't believe | J2 |
| it | I2 |
| - | |
| and I'll also have | H |
| some beer or | P |
| some wine | V |
| or maybe nothing | X |
| at all | K2 |
| and I'll be | D |
| years old | L2 |
| driving it home | M2 |
| to | C |
| you and me | D |
| and to the little girl | N2 |
| who lost her | B |
| sheep | O2 |
| or her | B |
| computer | B |
Charles Bukowski
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