Why I Am Not A Painter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEBFGHIJKLMNO PQRSBPLETUVBM| I am not a painter I am a poet | A |
| Why I think I would rather be | B |
| a painter but I am not Well | C |
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| for instance Mike Goldberg | D |
| is starting a painting I drop in | E |
| Sit down and have a drink he | B |
| says I drink we drink I look | F |
| up You have SARDINES in it | G |
| Yes it needed something there | H |
| Oh I go and the days go by | I |
| and I drop in again The painting | J |
| is going on and I go and the days | K |
| go by I drop in The painting is | L |
| finished Where's SARDINES | M |
| All that's left is just | N |
| letters It was too much Mike says | O |
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| But me One day I am thinking of | P |
| a color orange I write a line | Q |
| about orange Pretty soon it is a | R |
| whole page of words not lines | S |
| Then another page There should be | B |
| so much more not of orange of | P |
| words of how terrible orange is | L |
| and life Days go by It is even in | E |
| prose I am a real poet My poem | T |
| is finished and I haven't mentioned | U |
| orange yet It's twelve poems I call | V |
| it ORANGES And one day in a gallery | B |
| I see Mike's painting called SARDINES | M |
Frank O'hara
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