Walking Through The Upper East Side Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCD EFAAGH G AAEI DFFAJD AKALM| All over the district on leather couches | A |
| brocade couches on daybeds | A |
| 'professional divans ' they are confessing | B |
| The air is thick with it | C |
| the ears of analysts must be sticky | D |
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| Words fill the air above couches hover there | E |
| hanging like smog I imagine | F |
| impossible Steinberg scrolls | A |
| unutterable sounds suspended in inked curlicues | A |
| while the Braque print the innocuous Utrillo | G |
| look on look on look on | H |
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| My six analysts for example | G |
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| the sly Czech who tucked his shoelaces | A |
| under the tongues of his shoes | A |
| the mistress of social work with orange hair | E |
| the famous old german who said | I |
| 'You sink zerefore you are ' | - |
| the bouncy American who loved to talk dirty | D |
| the bitchy widow of a famous theoretician | F |
| another or was it two I have forgotten | F |
| they rise like a Greek chorus in my dreams | A |
| They reproach me for my messy life | J |
| They do not offer to refund my money | D |
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| the others siblings for an hour or so | A |
| ghosts whom I brushed in out of the door | K |
| Sometimes the couch was warm from their bodies | A |
| Only our coats knew each other | L |
| rubbing shoulders in the dark closet | M |
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