Personal Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH CIJKELMNOPQRSCTUVWXP YZA2MB2B2| Now when I walk around at lunchtime | A |
| I have only two charms in my pocket | B |
| an old Roman coin Mike Kanemitsu gave me | C |
| and a bolt head that broke off a packing case | D |
| when I was in Madrid the others never | E |
| brought me too much luck though they did | F |
| help keep me in New York against coercion | G |
| but now I'm happy for a time and interested | H |
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| I walk through the luminous humidity | C |
| passing the House of Seagram with its wet | I |
| and its loungers and the construction to | J |
| the left that closed the sidewalk if | K |
| I ever get to be a construction worker | E |
| I'd like to have a silver hat please | L |
| and get to Moriarty's where I wait for | M |
| LeRoi and hear who wants to be a mover and | N |
| shaker the last five years my batting average | O |
| is that's that and LeRoi comes in | P |
| and tells me Miles Davis was clubbed | Q |
| times last night outside BIRDLAND by a cop | R |
| a lady asks us for a nickel for a terrible | S |
| disease but we don't give her one we | C |
| don't like terrible diseases then | T |
| we go eat some fish and some ale it's | U |
| cool but crowded we don't like Lionel Trilling | V |
| we decide we like Don Allen we don't like | W |
| Henry James so much we like Herman Melville | X |
| we don't want to be in the poets' walk in | P |
| San Francisco even we just want to be rich | Y |
| and walk on girders in our silver hats | Z |
| I wonder if one person out of the is | A2 |
| thinking of me as I shake hands with LeRoi | M |
| and buy a strap for my wristwatch and go | B2 |
| back to work happy at the thought possibly so | B2 |
Frank O'hara
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