A Step Away From Them Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHGIHJKL MIHHGDGNO HPQFNFRST AUVUHWFFXFYDK FYX| It's my lunch hour so I go | A |
| for a walk among the hum colored | B |
| cabs First down the sidewalk | C |
| where laborers feed their dirty | D |
| glistening torsos sandwiches | E |
| and Coca Cola with yellow helmets | F |
| on They protect them from falling | G |
| bricks I guess Then onto the | H |
| avenue where skirts are flipping | G |
| above heels and blow up over | I |
| grates The sun is hot but the | H |
| cabs stir up the air I look | J |
| at bargains in wristwatches There | K |
| are cats playing in sawdust | L |
| - | |
| On | - |
| to Times Square where the sign | M |
| blows smoke over my head and higher | I |
| the waterfall pours lightly A | H |
| Negro stands in a doorway with a | H |
| toothpick languorously agitating | G |
| A blonde chorus girl clicks he | D |
| smiles and rubs his chin Everything | G |
| suddenly honks it is of | N |
| a Thursday | O |
| - | |
| Neon in daylight is a | H |
| great pleasure as Edwin Denby would | P |
| write as are light bulbs in daylight | Q |
| I stop for a cheeseburger at JULIET'S | F |
| CORNER Giulietta Maina wife of | N |
| Federico Fellini eacute bell' attrice | F |
| And chocolate malted A lady in | R |
| foxes on such a day puts her poodle | S |
| in a cab | T |
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| There are several Puerto | A |
| Ricans on the avenue today which | U |
| makes it beautiful and warm First | V |
| Bunny died then John Latouche | U |
| then Jackson Pollock But is the | H |
| earth as full of life was full of them | W |
| And one has eaten and one walks | F |
| past the magazines with nudes | F |
| and the posters for BULLFIGHT and | X |
| the Manhatten Storage Warehouse | F |
| which they'll soon tear down I | Y |
| used to think they had the Armory | D |
| Show there | K |
| - | |
| A glass of papaya juice | F |
| and back to work My heart is in my | Y |
| pocket it is Poems by Pierre Reverdy | X |
Frank O'hara
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