Writ On The Steps Of Puerto Rican Harlem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFGG CCHCHDIJKCLKHHM HNHOCHNNIP QRINS| There s a truth limits man | A |
| A truth prevents his going any farther | B |
| The world is changing | C |
| The world knows it s changing | C |
| Heavy is the sorrow of the day | D |
| The old have the look of doom | E |
| The young mistake their fate in that look | F |
| That is truth | G |
| But it isn t all truth | G |
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| Life has meaning | C |
| And I do not know the meaning | C |
| Even when I felt it were meaningless | H |
| I hoped and prayed and sought a meaning | C |
| It wasn t all frolic poesy | H |
| There were dues to pay | D |
| Summoning Death and God | I |
| I d a wild dare to tackle Them | J |
| Death proved meaningless without Life | K |
| Yes the world is changing | C |
| But Death remains the same | L |
| It takes man away from Life | K |
| The only meaning he knows | H |
| And usually it is a sad business | H |
| This Death | M |
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| I d an innocence I d a seriousness | H |
| I d a humor save me from amateur philosophy | N |
| I am able to contradict my beliefs | H |
| I am able able | O |
| Because I want to know the meaning of everything | C |
| Yet sit I like a brokenness | H |
| Moaning Oh what responsibility | N |
| I put on thee Gregory | N |
| Death and God | I |
| Hard hard it s hard | P |
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| I learned life were no dream | Q |
| I learned truth deceived | R |
| Man is not God | I |
| Life is a century | N |
| Death an instant | S |
Gregory Corso
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