Letter To N.y. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGH IJKJ LMNM OPQP RCSC| For Louise Crane | A |
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| In your next letter I wish you'd say | B |
| where you are going and what you are doing | C |
| how are the plays and after the plays | D |
| what other pleasures you're pursuing | C |
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| taking cabs in the middle of the night | E |
| driving as if to save your soul | F |
| where the road gose round and round the park | G |
| and the meter glares like a moral owl | H |
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| and the trees look so queer and green | I |
| standing alone in big black caves | J |
| and suddenly you're in a different place | K |
| where everything seems to happen in waves | J |
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| and most of the jokes you just can't catch | L |
| like dirty words rubbed off a slate | M |
| and the songs are loud but somehow dim | N |
| and it gets so teribly late | M |
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| and coming out of the brownstone house | O |
| to the gray sidewalk the watered street | P |
| one side of the buildings rises with the sun | Q |
| like a glistening field of wheat | P |
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| Wheat not oats dear I'm afraid | R |
| if it's wheat it's none of your sowing | C |
| nevertheless I'd like to know | S |
| what you are doing and where you are going | C |
Elizabeth Bishop
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