Fast Break Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC AD AE FG HA IJ KL MN OP GQ PR PK ST MU VI EM AW| In Memory of Dennis Turner | A |
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| A hook shot kisses the rim and | B |
| hangs there helplessly but doesn't drop | C |
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| and for once our gangly starting center | A |
| boxes out his man and times his jump | D |
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| perfectly gathering the orange leather | A |
| from the air like a cherished possession | E |
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| and spinning around to throw a strike | F |
| to the outlet who is already shoveling | G |
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| an underhand pass toward the other guard | H |
| scissoring past a flat footed defender | A |
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| who looks stunned and nailed to the floor | I |
| in the wrong direction trying to catch sight | J |
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| of a high gliding dribble and a man | K |
| letting the play develop in front of him | L |
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| in slow motion almost exactly | M |
| like a coach's drawing on the blackboard | N |
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| both forwards racing down the court | O |
| the way that forwards should fanning out | P |
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| and filling the lanes in tandem moving | G |
| together as brothers passing the ball | Q |
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| between them without a dribble without | P |
| a single bounce hitting the hardwood | R |
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| until the guard finally lunges out | P |
| and commits to the wrong man | K |
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| while the power forward explodes past them | S |
| in a fury taking the ball into the air | T |
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| by himself now and laying it gently | M |
| against the glass for a lay up | U |
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| but losing his balance in the process | V |
| inexplicably falling hitting the floor | I |
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| with a wild headlong motion | E |
| for the game he loved like a country | M |
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| and swiveling back to see an orange blur | A |
| floating perfectly though the net | W |
Edward Hirsch
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