A True Account Of Talking To The Sun On Fire Island Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGGHI JK LMNOP QIRESTEI UTIVWEXOE YZA2TB2C2 D2EE2 F2YG2XOH2 UI2ETE2J2U K2L2M2N2VD O2P2Q2R2S2T2L2 U2UV2WW2 X2OEI WUY2| y I've been | A |
| trying to wake you up for fifteen | B |
| minutes Don't be so rude you are | C |
| only the second poet I've ever chosen | D |
| to speak to personally | E |
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| so why | F |
| aren't you more attentive If I could | G |
| burn you through the window I would | G |
| to wake you up I can't hang around | H |
| here all day | I |
| - | |
| Sorry Sun I stayed | J |
| up late last night talking to Hal | K |
| - | |
| When I woke up Mayakovsky he was | L |
| a lot more prompt the Sun said | M |
| petulantly Most people are up | N |
| already waiting to see if I'm going | O |
| to put in an appearance | P |
| - | |
| I tried | Q |
| to apologize I missed you yesterday | I |
| That's better he said I didn't | R |
| know you'd come out You may be | E |
| wondering why I've come so close | S |
| Yes I said beginning to feel hot | T |
| wondering if maybe he wasn't burning me | E |
| anyway | I |
| - | |
| Frankly I wanted to tell you | U |
| I like your poetry I see a lot | T |
| on my rounds and you're okay You may | I |
| not be the greatest thing on earth but | V |
| you're different Now I've heard some | W |
| say you're crazy they being excessively | E |
| calm themselves to my mind and other | X |
| crazy poets think that you're a boring | O |
| reactionary Not me | E |
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| Just keep on | Y |
| like I do and pay no attention You'll | Z |
| find that people always will complain | A2 |
| about the atmosphere either too hot | T |
| or too cold too bright or too dark days | B2 |
| too short or too long | C2 |
| - | |
| If you don't appear | D2 |
| at all one day they think you're lazy | E |
| or dead Just keep right on I like it | E2 |
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| And don't worry about your lineage | F2 |
| poetic or natural The Sun shines on | Y |
| the jungle you know on the tundra | G2 |
| the sea the ghetto Wherever you were | X |
| I knew it and saw you moving I was waiting | O |
| for you to get to work | H2 |
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| And now that you | U |
| are making your own days so to speak | I2 |
| even if no one reads you but me | E |
| you won't be depressed Not | T |
| everyone can look up even at me It | E2 |
| hurts their eyes | J2 |
| Oh Sun I'm so grateful to you | U |
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| Thanks and remember I'm watching It's | K2 |
| easier for me to speak to you out | L2 |
| here I don't have to slide down | M2 |
| between buildings to get your ear | N2 |
| I know you love Manhattan but | V |
| you ought to look up more often | D |
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| And | O2 |
| always embrace things people earth | P2 |
| sky stars as I do freely and with | Q2 |
| the appropriate sense of space That | R2 |
| is your inclination known in the heavens | S2 |
| and you should follow it to hell if | T2 |
| necessary which I doubt | L2 |
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| Maybe we'll | U2 |
| speak again in Africa of which I too | U |
| am specially fond Go back to sleep now | V2 |
| Frank and I may leave a tiny poem | W |
| in that brain of yours as my farewell | W2 |
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| Sun don't go I was awake | X2 |
| at last No go I must they're calling | O |
| me | E |
| Who are they | I |
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| Rising he said Some | W |
| day you'll know They're calling to you | U |
| too Darkly he rose and then I slept | Y2 |
Frank O'hara
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