Nostalgia Of The Lakefronts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EFGFHH IJKJLMG NIOIPQP GRSRTT UVUWXX| Cities burn behind us the lake glitters | A |
| A tall loudspeaker is announcing prizes | B |
| Another by the lake the times of cruises | C |
| Childhood once vast with terrors and surprises | C |
| Is fading to a landscape deep with distance | D |
| And always the sad piano in the distance | D |
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| Faintly in the distance a ghostly tinkling | E |
| O indecipherable blurred harmonies | F |
| Or some far horn repeating over water | G |
| Its high lost note cut loose from all harmonies | F |
| At such times wakeful a child will dream the world | H |
| And this is the world we run to from the world | H |
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| Or the two worlds come together and are one | I |
| On dark sweet afternoons of storm and of rain | J |
| And stereopticons brought out and dusted | K |
| Stacks of old Geographics or through the rain | J |
| A mad wet dash to the local movie palace | L |
| And the shriek perhaps of Kane s white cockatoo | M |
| Would this have been summer | G |
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| By June the city always seems neurotic | N |
| But lakes are good all summer for reflection | I |
| And ours is famed among painters for its blues | O |
| Yet not entirely sad upon reflection | I |
| Why sad at all Is their wish so unique | P |
| To anthropomorphize the inanimate | Q |
| With a love that masquerades as pure technique | P |
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| O art and the child were innocent together | G |
| But landscapes grow abstract like aging parents | R |
| Soon now the war will shutter the grand hotels | S |
| And we when we come back will come as parents | R |
| There are no lanterns now strung between pines | T |
| Only like history the stark bare northern pines | T |
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| And after a time the lakefront disappears | U |
| Into the stubborn verses of its exiles | V |
| Or a few gifted sketches of old piers | U |
| It rains perhaps on the other side of the heart | W |
| Then we remember whether we would or no | X |
| Nostalgia comes with the smell of rain you know | X |
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