At Night Chinamen Jump Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CC DD EE FF GG HH II JJ| At night Chinamen jump | A |
| on Asia with a thump | A |
| while in our willful way | B |
| we in secret play | B |
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| affectionate games and bruise | C |
| our knees like China's shoes | C |
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| The birds push apples through | D |
| grass the moon turns blue | D |
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| these apples roll beneath | E |
| our buttocks like a heath | E |
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| full of Chinese thrushes | F |
| flushed from China's bushes | F |
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| As we love at night | G |
| birds sing out of sight | G |
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| Chinese rhythms beat | H |
| through us in our heat | H |
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| the apples and the birds | I |
| move us like soft words | I |
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| we couple in the grace | J |
| of that mysterious race | J |
Frank O'hara
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