On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing The Delaware At The Museum Of Modern Art Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHID JKLMN OEPQR STTDU VS| Now that our hero has come back to us | A |
| in his white pants and we know his nose | B |
| trembling like a flag under fire | C |
| we see the calm cold river is supporting | D |
| our forces the beautiful history | E |
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| To be more revolutionary than a nun | F |
| is our desire to be secular and intimate | G |
| as when sighting a redcoat you smile | H |
| and pull the trigger Anxieties | I |
| and animosities flaming and feeding | D |
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| on theoretical considerations and | J |
| the jealous spiritualities of the abstract | K |
| the robot they're smoke billows above | L |
| the physical event They have burned up | M |
| See how free we are as a nation of persons | N |
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| Dear father of our country so alive | O |
| you must have lied incessantly to be | E |
| immediate here are your bones crossed | P |
| on my breast like a rusty flintlock | Q |
| a pirate's flag bravely specific | R |
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| and ever so light in the misty glare | S |
| of a crossing by water in winter to a shore | T |
| other than that the bridge reaches for | T |
| Don't shoot until the white of freedom glinting | D |
| on your gun barrel you see the general fear | U |
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| Click here to view the painting this poem was written about | V |
| Washington Crossing The Delaware | S |
Frank O'hara
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