Early Sunday Morning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA ADBE FGCH BIJA KALM| I used to mock my father and his chums | A |
| for getting up early on Sunday morning | B |
| and drinking coffee at a local spot | C |
| but now I m one of those chumps | A |
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| No one cares about my old humiliations | A |
| but they go on dragging through my sleep | D |
| like a string of empty tin cans rattling | B |
| behind an abandoned car | E |
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| It s like this just when you think | F |
| you have forgotten that red haired girl | G |
| who left you stranded in a parking lot | C |
| forty years ago you wake up | H |
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| early enough to see her disappearing | B |
| around the corner of your dream | I |
| on someone else s motorcycle | J |
| roaring onto the highway at sunrise | A |
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| And so now I m sitting in a dimly lit | K |
| caf full of early morning risers | A |
| where the windows are covered with soot | L |
| and the coffee is warm and bitter | M |
Edward Hirsch
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