A Plan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEDEFGHHIIHJHH JHKKLLMHMHNHHHNNOOPP QQRSRRSHTHTHUQAVAVWW XXYZZYYouth is the season of revolt at twenty five | A |
We curse the reigning politicians | B |
Wondering that any man alive | A |
Stands for such damnable conditions | B |
Whatever is to us is wrong | C |
In economics life religion art | D |
The crowned old laureates of song | C |
Are pikers and accepted sages | E |
Appear devoid of intellect and heart | D |
Continually the ego in us rages | E |
Our sense of universal rank injustice | F |
Swells till it's like to bust us | G |
We love to see ourselves as outcast goats | H |
Browsing at basement tobbledotes | H |
The while we forge the mordant bolt | I |
That is to give society its jolt | I |
And any man who wears two eyes upon his face | H |
Contentedly and unashamed | J |
And glories in the pose | H |
And makes a virtue of his having just one nose | H |
We curse as dull conventional and tamed | J |
And commonplace | H |
Thirty finds us a trigle sobered with a doubt | K |
Whether we'll turn the cosmos inside out | K |
Reform the earth regild the moon | L |
And make the Pleiads sing a modern tune | L |
Some of the classics are not bores we think | M |
And barbers have their uses | H |
We grow more choice in what we eat and drink | M |
Less angry at abuses | H |
We work a little harder want more pay | N |
Grab on to better jobs | H |
And learn to make excuses | H |
For certain individuals erstwhile condemned as snobs | H |
We do not worry nine hours every day | N |
because the world in its traditional crool way | N |
Continues to roll calmly on and crush | O |
The worthier myriads into bloody mush | O |
And yet at thirty on the whole | P |
If analyzed we still would show a trace of soul | P |
At forty well you know | Q |
Chins bank accounts and stomachs start to grow | Q |
The world's still wrong in spite of all we've tried | R |
To do for it and we're no longer broken hearted | S |
We sit on it and ride | R |
We're willing now to let the darned thing slide | R |
Along in just about the way it stated | S |
Of course we're anxious for reforms | H |
And all that sort of stuff | T |
Unless they cause too many economic storms | H |
But really on the whole it's well enough | T |
We hold by standards rules and norms | H |
But when I'm eighty I intend | U |
To turn a fool again for twenty years or so | Q |
Go back to being twenty five | A |
Drop cautions and conventions join some little group | V |
Fantastically rebel and alive | A |
And resolute from soup | V |
To nuts I'll reimburse myself | W |
For all the freak stuff that I've had to keep upon the shelf | W |
Indulge my crochets be the friend of man | X |
And pull the thoughts I've always had to can | X |
I'm looking forward to a rough rebellous unrespectable old age | Y |
Kicking the world uphill | Z |
With laughter shrill | Z |
And squeals of high pitched throaty rage | Y |
Don Marquis
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