Mayakovsky Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGH IJ KLHM DNO PDQD RST UVWX YZBZA2B2HZ C2ZD2E2 B2ZBZF2 G2G2KD2| A | |
| My heart's aflutter | B |
| I am standing in the bath tub | C |
| crying Mother mother | B |
| who am I If he | D |
| will just come back once | E |
| and kiss me on the face | F |
| his coarse hair brush | G |
| my temple it's throbbing | H |
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| then I can put on my clothes | I |
| I guess and walk the streets | J |
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| I love you I love you | K |
| but I'm turning to my verses | L |
| and my heart is closing | H |
| like a fist | M |
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| Words be | D |
| sick as I am sick swoon | N |
| roll back your eyes a pool | O |
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| and I'll stare down | P |
| at my wounded beauty | D |
| which at best is only a talent | Q |
| for poetry | D |
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| Cannot please cannot charm or win | R |
| what a poet | S |
| and the clear water is thick | T |
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| with bloody blows on its head | U |
| I embrace a cloud | V |
| but when I soared | W |
| it rained | X |
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| That's funny there's blood on my chest | Y |
| oh yes I've been carrying bricks | Z |
| what a funny place to rupture | B |
| and now it is raining on the ailanthus | Z |
| as I step out onto the window ledge | A2 |
| the tracks below me are smoky and | B2 |
| glistening with a passion for running | H |
| I leap into the leaves green like the sea | Z |
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| Now I am quietly waiting for | C2 |
| the catastrophe of my personality | Z |
| to seem beautiful again | D2 |
| and interesting and modern | E2 |
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| The country is grey and | B2 |
| brown and white in trees | Z |
| snows and skies of laughter | B |
| always diminishing less funny | Z |
| not just darker not just grey | F2 |
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| It may be the coldest day of | G2 |
| the year what does he think of | G2 |
| that I mean what do I And if I do | K |
| perhaps I am myself again | D2 |
Frank O'hara
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