Young In New Orleans Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIHJJKLMNOPQR STUVWWX TWYUZA2TGT BEB2 C2D2TKCE2F2 G2C2NH2I2J2K2L2M2TQK RN2MO2 P2TQ2TR2S2 TT2U2V2 F2W2X2D2W KQY2Z2Z2MKUKHMMTD2starving there sitting around the bars | A |
and at night walking the streets for | B |
hours | C |
the moonlight always seemed fake | D |
to me maybe it was | E |
and in the French Quarter I watched | F |
the horses and buggies going by | G |
everybody sitting high in the open | H |
carriages the black driver and in | I |
back the man and the woman | H |
usually young and always white | J |
and I was always white | J |
and hardly charmed by the | K |
world | L |
New Orleans was a place to | M |
hide | N |
I could piss away my life | O |
unmolested | P |
except for the rats | Q |
the rats in my dark small room | R |
very much resented sharing it | S |
with me | T |
they were large and fearless | U |
and stared at me with eyes | V |
that spoke | W |
an unblinking | W |
death | X |
- | |
women were beyond me | T |
they saw something | W |
depraved | Y |
there was one waitress | U |
a little older than | Z |
I she rather smiled | A2 |
lingered when she | T |
brought my | G |
coffee | T |
- | |
that was plenty for | B |
me that was | E |
enough | B2 |
- | |
there was something about | C2 |
that city though | D2 |
it didn't let me feel guilty | T |
that I had no feeling for the | K |
things so many others | C |
needed | E2 |
it let me alone | F2 |
- | |
sitting up in my bed | G2 |
the llights out | C2 |
hearing the outside | N |
sounds | H2 |
lifting my cheap | I2 |
bottle of wine | J2 |
letting the warmth of | K2 |
the grape | L2 |
enter | M2 |
me | T |
as I heard the rats | Q |
moving about the | K |
room | R |
I preferred them | N2 |
to | M |
humans | O2 |
- | |
being lost | P2 |
being crazy maybe | T |
is not so bad | Q2 |
if you can be | T |
that way | R2 |
undisturbed | S2 |
- | |
New Orleans gave me | T |
that | T2 |
nobody ever called | U2 |
my name | V2 |
- | |
no telephone | F2 |
no car | W2 |
no job | X2 |
no | D2 |
anything | W |
- | |
me and the | K |
rats | Q |
and my youth | Y2 |
one time | Z2 |
that time | Z2 |
I knew | M |
even through the | K |
nothingness | U |
it was a | K |
celebration | H |
of something not to | M |
do | M |
but only | T |
know | D2 |
Charles Bukowski
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