On First Looking Into Bee Palmer's Shoulders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCDCEF GHHGGHHG IDIDIE| WITH BOWS TO KEATS AND KEITH'S | A |
| The World's Most Famous Shoulders | B |
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| Then I felt like some watcher of the skies | C |
| When a new planet swims into his ken | D |
| Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes | C |
| He stared at the Pacific and all his men | D |
| Looked at each other with a wild surmise | C |
| Silent upon a peak in Darien | E |
| BEE PALMER has taken the raw human all too human stuff of the underworld with its sighs of sadness and regret its mad merriment its swift blaze of passion its turbulent dances its outlaw music its songs of the social bandit and made a new art product of the theatre She is to the sources of jazz and the blues what Fran ois Villon was to the wild life of Paris Both have found exquisite blossoms of art in the sector of life most removed from the concert room and the boudoir and their harvest has the vigour the resolute life the stimulating quality the indelible impress of daredevil care free do as you please lives of the picturesque men and women who defy convention From Keith's Press Agent | F |
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| Much have I travell'd in the realms of jazz | G |
| And many goodly arms and shoulders seen | H |
| Quiver and Quake if you know what I mean | H |
| I've seen a lot as everybody has | G |
| Some plaudits got while others got the razz | G |
| But when I saw Bee Palmer shimmy queen | H |
| I shook in sympathy my troubled bean | H |
| And said This is the utter razmatazz | G |
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| Then felt I like some patient with a pain | I |
| When a new surgeon swims into his ken | D |
| Or like stout Brodie when with reeling brain | I |
| He jumped into the river There and then | D |
| I swayed and took the morning train | I |
| To Norwalk Naugatuck and Darien | E |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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