The Tourist From Syracuse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEF AEGH IEEC JJEK ELME NAAE JIEE IGOP| i One of those men who can be a car salesman or a tourist from Syracuse or a hired assassin | A |
| John D MacDonald i | B |
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| You would not recognize me | C |
| Mine is the face which blooms in | D |
| The dank mirrors of washrooms | E |
| As you grope for the light switch | F |
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| My eyes have the expression | A |
| Of the cold eyes of statues | E |
| Watching their pigeons return | G |
| From the feed you have scattered | H |
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| And I stand on my corner | I |
| With the same marble patience | E |
| If I move at all it is | E |
| At the same pace precisely | C |
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| As the shade of the awning | J |
| Under which I stand waiting | J |
| And with whose blackness it seems | E |
| I am already blended | K |
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| I speak seldom and always | E |
| In a murmur as quiet | L |
| As that of crowds which surround | M |
| The victims of accidents | E |
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| Shall I confess who I am | N |
| My name is all names or none | A |
| I am the used car salesman | A |
| The tourist from Syracuse | E |
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| The hired assassin waiting | J |
| I will stand here forever | I |
| Like one who has missed his bus | E |
| Familiar anonymous | E |
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| On my usual corner | I |
| The corner at which you turn | G |
| To approach that place where now | O |
| You must not hope to arrive | P |
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