The Day Lady Died Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDA CEFGHIJCKLGCG CMCMCN OPQR| It is in New York a Friday | A |
| three days after Bastille day yes | B |
| it is and I go get a shoeshine | C |
| because I will get off the in Easthampton | C |
| at and then go straight to dinner | D |
| and I don't know the people who will feed me | A |
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| I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun | C |
| and have a hamburger and a malted and buy | E |
| an ugly NEW WORLD WRITING to see what the poets | F |
| in Ghana are doing these days | G |
| I go on to the bank | H |
| and Miss Stillwagon first name Linda I once heard | I |
| doesn't even look up my balance for once in her life | J |
| and in the GOLDEN GRIFFIN I get a little Verlaine | C |
| for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do | K |
| think of Hesiod trans Richmond Lattimore or | L |
| Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les N egrave gres | G |
| of Genet but I don't I stick with Verlaine | C |
| after practically going to sleep with quandariness | G |
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| and for Mike I just stroll into the PARK LANE | C |
| Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and | M |
| then I go back where I came from to th Avenue | C |
| and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and | M |
| casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton | C |
| of Picayunes and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it | N |
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| and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of | O |
| leaning on the john door in the SPOT | P |
| while she whispered a song along the keyboard | Q |
| to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing | R |
Frank O'hara
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