In Memory Of My Feelings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DDDEFGHIDJKLMNFODPDD QDRDDSTADUVTDWDTDD| My quietness has a man in it he is transparent | A |
| and he carries me quietly like a gondola through the streets | B |
| He has several likenesses like stars and years like numerals | C |
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| My quietness has a number of naked selves | D |
| so many pistols I have borrowed to protect myselves | D |
| from creatures who too readily recognize my weapons | D |
| and have murder in their heart | E |
| though in winter | F |
| they are warm as roses in the desert | G |
| taste of chilled anisette | H |
| At times withdrawn | I |
| I rise into the cool skies | D |
| and gaze on at the imponderable world with the simple identification | J |
| of my colleagues the mountains Manfred climbs to my nape | K |
| speaks but I do not hear him | L |
| I'm too blue | M |
| An elephant takes up his trumpet | N |
| money flutters from the windows of cries silk stretching its mirror | F |
| across shoulder blades A gun is fired | O |
| One of me rushes | D |
| to window and one of me raises his whip and one of me | P |
| flutters up from the center of the track amidst the pink flamingoes | D |
| and underneath their hooves as they round the last turn my lips | D |
| are scarred and brown brushed by tails masked in dirt's lust | Q |
| definition open mouths gasping for the cries of the bettors for the lungs | D |
| of earth | R |
| So many of my transparencies could not resist the race | D |
| Terror in earth dried mushrooms pink feathers tickets | D |
| a flaking moon drifting across the muddied teeth | S |
| the imperceptible moan of covered breathing | T |
| love of the serpent | A |
| I am underneath its leaves as the hunter crackles and pants | D |
| and bursts as the barrage balloon drifts behind a cloud | U |
| and animal death whips out its flashlight | V |
| whistling | T |
| and slipping the glove off the trigger hand The serpent's eyes | D |
| redden at sight of those thorny fingernails he is so smooth | W |
| My transparent selves | D |
| flail about like vipers in a pail writhing and hissing | T |
| without panic with a certain justice of response | D |
| and presently the aquiline serpent comes to resemble the Medusa | D |
Frank O'hara
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