So You Want To Be A Writer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFCGHDIJCDKCLMCN OCCCPQCRAPAQ STUP GRGNVRWAXYZCRFA2DICB 2FC C2D2E2CA F2 G2| if it doesn't come bursting out of you | A |
| in spite of everything | B |
| don't do it | C |
| unless it comes unasked out of your | D |
| heart and your mind and your mouth | E |
| and your gut | F |
| don't do it | C |
| if you have to sit for hours | G |
| staring at your computer screen | H |
| or hunched over your | D |
| typewriter | I |
| searching for words | J |
| don't do it | C |
| if you're doing it for money or | D |
| fame | K |
| don't do it | C |
| if you're doing it because you want | L |
| women in your bed | M |
| don't do it | C |
| if you have to sit there and | N |
| rewrite it again and again | O |
| don't do it | C |
| if it's hard work just thinking about doing it | C |
| don't do it | C |
| if you're trying to write like somebody | P |
| else | Q |
| forget about it | C |
| if you have to wait for it to roar out of | R |
| you | A |
| then wait patiently | P |
| if it never does roar out of you | A |
| do something else | Q |
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| if you first have to read it to your wife | S |
| or your girlfriend or your boyfriend | T |
| or your parents or to anybody at all | U |
| you're not ready | P |
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| don't be like so many writers | G |
| don't be like so many thousands of | R |
| people who call themselves writers | G |
| don't be dull and boring and | N |
| pretentious don't be consumed with self | V |
| love | R |
| the libraries of the world have | W |
| yawned themselves to | A |
| sleep | X |
| over your kind | Y |
| don't add to that | Z |
| don't do it | C |
| unless it comes out of | R |
| your soul like a rocket | F |
| unless being still would | A2 |
| drive you to madness or | D |
| suicide or murder | I |
| don't do it | C |
| unless the sun inside you is | B2 |
| burning your gut | F |
| don't do it | C |
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| when it is truly time | C2 |
| and if you have been chosen | D2 |
| it will do it by | E2 |
| itself and it will keep on doing it | C |
| until you die or it dies in you | A |
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| there is no other way | F2 |
| - | |
| and there never was | G2 |
Charles Bukowski
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