The Skokie Theater Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQGRS TUSVDWJAX| Twelve years old and lovesick bumbling | A |
| and terrified for the first time in my life | B |
| but strangely hopeful too and stunned | C |
| definitely stunned I wanted to cry | D |
| I almost started to sob when Chris Klein | E |
| actually touched me oh God below the belt | F |
| in the back row of the Skokie Theatre | G |
| Our knees bumped helplessly our mouths | H |
| were glued together like flypaper our lips | I |
| were grinding in a hysterical grimace | J |
| while the most handsome man in the world | K |
| twitched his hips on the flickering screen | L |
| and the girls began to scream in the dark | M |
| I didn t know one thing about the body yet | N |
| about the deep foam filling my bones | O |
| but I wanted to cry out in desolation | P |
| when she touched me again when the lights | Q |
| flooded in the crowded theatre | G |
| and the other kids started to file | R |
| into the narrow aisle into a lobby | S |
| of faded purple splendor into the last | T |
| Saturday in August before she moved away | U |
| I never wanted to move again but suddenly | S |
| we were being lifted toward the sidewalk | V |
| in a crush of bodies blinking shy | D |
| unprepared for the ringing familiar voices | W |
| and the harsh glare of sunlight the brightness | J |
| of an afternoon that left us gripping | A |
| each other s hands trembling and changed | X |
Edward Hirsch
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