Rhapsody Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCDECCBFCG HIJKLMBMB BNDBOPCQKC CCRSTUBP QBCGVBW| Madison Avenue | A |
| door to heaven portal | B |
| stopped realities and eternal licentiousness | C |
| or at least the jungle of impossible eagerness | C |
| your marble is bronze and your lianas elevator cables | C |
| swinging from the myth of ascending | D |
| I would join | E |
| or declining the challenge of racial attractions | C |
| they zing on into the lynch dear friends | C |
| while everywhere love is breathing draftily | B |
| like a doorway linking rd with th | F |
| the east bound with the west bound traffic by s | C |
| o midtown tunnels and the tunnels too of Holland | G |
| - | |
| where is the summit where all aims are clear | H |
| the pin point light upon a fear of lust | I |
| as agony's needlework grows up around the unicorn | J |
| and fences him for milk and yoghurt work | K |
| when I see Gianni I know he's thinking of John Ericson | L |
| playing the Rachmaninoff nd or Elizabeth Taylor | M |
| taking sleeping pills and Jane thinks of Manderley | B |
| and Irkutsk while I cough lightly in the smog of desire | M |
| and my eyes water achingly imitating the true blue | B |
| - | |
| a sight of Manahatta in the towering needle | B |
| multi faceted insight of the fly in the stringless labyrinth | N |
| Canada plans a higher place than the Empire State Building | D |
| I am getting into a cab at th Street and st Avenue | B |
| and the Negro driver tells me about a apartment | O |
| where you can't walk across the floor after at night | P |
| not even to pee cause it keeps them awake downstairs | C |
| no I don't like that well I didn't take it | Q |
| perfect in the hot humid morning on my way to work | K |
| a little supper club conversation for the mill of the gods | C |
| - | |
| you were there always and you know all about these things | C |
| as indifferent as an encyclopedia with your calm brown eyes | C |
| it isn't enough to smile when you run the gauntlet | R |
| you've got to spit like Niagara Falls on everybody or | S |
| Victoria Falls or at least the beautiful urban fountains of Madrid | T |
| as the Niger joins the Gulf of Guinea near the Menemsha Bar | U |
| that is what you learn in the early morning passing Madison Avenue | B |
| where you've never spent any time and stores eat up light | P |
| - | |
| I have always wanted to be near it | Q |
| though the day is long and I don't mean Madison Avenue | B |
| lying in a hammock on St Mark's Place sorting my poems | C |
| in the rancid nourishment of this mountainous island | G |
| they are coming and we holy ones must go | V |
| is Tibet historically a part of China as I historically | B |
| belong to the enormous bliss of American death | W |
Frank O'hara
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Rhapsody poem by Frank O'hara
Best Poems of Frank O'hara