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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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