Having A Coke With You Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGDHE DI JDKLMNFIOFE ED| is even more fun than going to San Sebastian Ir n Hendaye Biarritz Bayonne | A |
| or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona | B |
| partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St Sebastian | C |
| partly because of my love for you partly because of your love for yoghurt | D |
| partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches | E |
| partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary | F |
| it is hard to believe when I'm with you that there can be anything as still | G |
| as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it | D |
| in the warm New York o'clock light we are drifting back and forth | H |
| between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles | E |
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| and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all just paint | D |
| you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them | I |
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| I look | J |
| at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world | D |
| except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it's in the Frick | K |
| which thank heavens you haven't gone to yet so we can go together the first time | L |
| and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of Futurism | M |
| just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase or | N |
| at a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michelangelo that used to wow me | F |
| and what good does all the research of the Impressionists do them | I |
| when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank | O |
| or for that matter Marino Marini when he didn't pick the rider as carefully | F |
| as the horse | E |
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| it seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experience | E |
| which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I am telling you about it | D |
Frank O'hara
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