Cheever's People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAAEFGHAIAJKA ALAAMAAAMNMNOAPQ| These beautifully grown men These hungerers | A |
| Look at them looking | B |
| They're overdrawn on all accounts but hope | C |
| they've missed | D |
| for the hundredth time the express | A |
| to the city of dreams | A |
| settled sighing for a desperate local | E |
| so who's to blame them | F |
| if they swim through swimming pools of twelve | G |
| year old scotch or fall | H |
| in love with widows other than their wives | A |
| who suddenly can't ride | I |
| in elevators In that suburb of elms | A |
| crabgrass to which | J |
| the angel banished them nothing is more real | K |
| than last night's empties | A |
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| So if they pack up stuff their vitals | A |
| in a two suiter | L |
| with passports bluer than their eyes | A |
| pose as barons | A |
| in Kitzbuhel or poets in Portofino | M |
| something in us sails | A |
| off with them dreaming of bacon lettuce | A |
| and tomato sandwiches | A |
| Oh all the exiles of the twenties knew | M |
| that America | N |
| was discovered this way desperate men | M |
| wearing nostalgia | N |
| like a hangover sailed out sailed out | O |
| in search of passports | A |
| eyes an ancient kingdom beyond the absurd | P |
| suburbs of the heart | Q |
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