Olives Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHIJK LMNIOPA GQRSTUV WXYVZA2B2V| Dead people don't like olives | A |
| I told my partners in eighth grade | B |
| dancing class who never listened | C |
| as we fox trotted one two one two | D |
| - | |
| The dead people I often consulted | E |
| nodded their skulls in unison | F |
| while I flung my black velvet cape | G |
| over my shoulders and glowered | H |
| from deep set burning eyes | I |
| walking the city streets alone at fifteen | J |
| crazy for cheerleaders and poems | K |
| - | |
| At Hamden High football games girls | L |
| in short pleated skirts | M |
| pranced and kicked and I longed | N |
| for their memorable thighs | I |
| They were friendly poets were mascots | O |
| but never listened when I told them | P |
| that dead people didn't like olives | A |
| - | |
| Instead the poet wearing his cape | G |
| continued to prowl in solitude | Q |
| intoning inscrutable stanzas | R |
| as halfbacks and tackles | S |
| made out Friday nights after football | T |
| on sofas in dark walled rec rooms | U |
| with magnanimous cheerleaders | V |
| - | |
| But decades later when the dead | W |
| have stopped blathering | X |
| about olives obese halfbacks wheeze | Y |
| upstairs to sleep beside cheerleaders | V |
| waiting for hip replacements | Z |
| while a lascivious doddering poet | A2 |
| his burning eyes deep set | B2 |
| in wrinkles cavorts with their daughters | V |
Donald Hall
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
About Olives
Olives is a poem by Donald Hall. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.
Write your comment about Olives poem by Donald Hall
Best Poems of Donald Hall