Ai Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHGIJKFLMNOPQR SRNPNFTUVWXYZA2B2WC2 NRD2E2F2G2SS| There is a chimp named Ai who can count to five | A |
| There's a poet named Ai whose selected poems Vice | B |
| just won the National Book Award | C |
| The name 'Ai' is pronounced 'I' | D |
| so that whenever I talk about the poet Ai | E |
| such as I'm teaching Ai's poems again this semester | F |
| it sounds like I'm teaching my own poems | G |
| or when I say I love Ai's work | H |
| it sounds as if I'm saying I love my own poems | G |
| but have poor grammar I haven't had a chance | I |
| to talk much yet about this Japanese chimp | J |
| who can arrange pictures in order of the number of objects | K |
| contained in those pictures I just read about her | F |
| for the first time yesterday the fifth of January in the year | L |
| which I imagine would be a hard concept | M |
| for Ai the chimp It feels weird writing | N |
| I had to do it when I wrote my first check | O |
| of the year I think we should proclaim | P |
| this year as the year of Olive Oyl who | Q |
| is also an but with letters instead of numbers | R |
| I was in the Koko fan club for a while since I love gorillas | S |
| but then I moved around so much the newsletters | R |
| and requests for money stopped coming | N |
| I wonder if Ai the poet is happy she shares a name | P |
| with a gifted chimp To me the most amazing thing | N |
| about Ai the poet is she hardly ever | F |
| writes an 'I' poem about herself | T |
| She crawls into the hearts | U |
| of the cruelest men and writes about what | V |
| it is like to be them while I mostly | W |
| curl in the bellies of the shattered women | X |
| There's no evidence that one approach | Y |
| is better than the other There's no evidence | Z |
| that chimpanzees use numbers in the wild | A2 |
| One expert said that perhaps chimpanzees | B2 |
| count the number of predators they see | W |
| I read on the web that John Wayne actually said | C2 |
| 'I don't feel we did wrong in taking | N |
| this great country away from them There were great numbers | R |
| of people who needed new land | D2 |
| and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves ' | E2 |
| So maybe chimps do count their enemies to see if they | F2 |
| have the advantage but I'm a romantic | G2 |
| I like to think that Ai the poet and I mostly count our stanzas | S |
| I like to think Ai the chimp mostly counts her bananas | S |
Denise Duhamel
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