Night: San Francisco Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHI HJH KLH KMB NHB| Rain drenches the patio stones | A |
| All night was spent waiting | B |
| for an earthquake and instead | C |
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| water stains sand with its pink foam | D |
| Yesterday's steps fill in with gray crabs | E |
| Baritone of a fog horn A misty light | F |
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| warns tankers which block the green | G |
| after sunset flash My lover's voice calls | H |
| to others in his restless sleep | I |
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| The venetian blinds slice streetlights | H |
| light coils around my waist and my lover's neck | J |
| dividing him into hundredths | H |
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| Would these fractions make me happier | K |
| My hands twist into a crocodile | L |
| My index finger the tooth that bites | H |
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| Gauguin's Tahiti My thumb is the head feather | K |
| of a California quail crying chi ca go | M |
| Night barely continues Is this the building | B |
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| staying still Is this hand the scorpion | N |
| that will do us in A few of Irving Street's | H |
| sycamores will blue the air come morning | B |
Deborah Ager
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