Against The Evidence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRDJ JSTUVWFXYSZA2B2| As I reach to close each book | A |
| lying open on my desk it leaps up | B |
| to snap at my fingers My legs | C |
| won t hold me I must sit down | D |
| My fingers pain me | E |
| where the thick leaves snapped together | F |
| at my touch | G |
| All my life | H |
| I ve held books in my hands | I |
| like children carefully turning | J |
| their pages and straightening out | K |
| their creases I use books | L |
| almost apologetically I believe | M |
| I often think their thoughts for them | N |
| Reading I never know where theirs leave off | O |
| and mine begin I am so much alone | P |
| in the world I can observe the stars | Q |
| or study the breeze I can count the steps | R |
| on a stair on the way up or down | D |
| and I can look at another human being | J |
| and get a smile knowing | J |
| it is for the sake of politeness | S |
| Nothing must be said of estrangement | T |
| among the human race and yet | U |
| nothing is said at all | V |
| because of that | W |
| But no book will help either | F |
| I stroke my desk | X |
| its wood so smooth so patient and still | Y |
| I set a typewriter on its surface | S |
| and begin to type | Z |
| to tell myself my troubles | A2 |
| Against the evidence I live by choice | B2 |
David Ignatow
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