Jane Awake Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL MNOP QRST IUVW PXYZ A2B2YC2 D2RE2F2| The opals hiding your lids | A |
| as you sleep as you ride ponies | B |
| mysteriously spring to bloom | C |
| like the blue flowers of autumn | D |
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| each nine o'clock And curls | E |
| tumble languorously towards | F |
| the yawning rubber band tan | G |
| your hand pressing all that | H |
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| riotous black sleep into | I |
| the quiet form of daylight | J |
| and its sunny disregard for | K |
| the luminous volutions oh | L |
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| and the budding waltzes | M |
| we swoop through in nights | N |
| Before dawn you roar with | O |
| your eyes shut unsmiling | P |
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| your volcanic flesh hides | Q |
| everything from the watchman | R |
| and the tendrils of dreams | S |
| strangle policemen running by | T |
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| too slowly to escape you | I |
| the racing vertiginous waves | U |
| of your murmuring need But | V |
| he is day's guardian saint | W |
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| that policeman and leaning | P |
| from your open window you ask | X |
| him what to dress to wear and | Y |
| to comb your hair modestly | Z |
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| for that is now your mode | A2 |
| Only by chance tripping on stairs | B2 |
| do you repeat the dance and | Y |
| then in the perfect variety of | C2 |
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| subdued impeccably disguised | D2 |
| white black pink blue saffron | R |
| and golden ambiance do we find | E2 |
| the nightly savage in a trance | F2 |
Frank O'hara
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