The Lovers Of The Poor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFDDGHIHJFKLHMN OPQQRSGHTUVOHHTWHHTT BBXYZHA2BB2HC2D2ZE2B HZF2F2ZZZZHHG2HC2H2Z ZH2ZH2HHZBI2HBZBHH2H BH2ZZJ2K2ZH2FFH2H2Darrive The Ladies from the Ladies' Betterment League | A |
Arrive in the afternoon the late light slanting | B |
In diluted gold bars across the boulevard brag | C |
Of proud seamed faces with mercy and murder hinting | B |
Here there interrupting all deep and debonair | D |
The pink paint on the innocence of fear | E |
Walk in a gingerly manner up the hall | F |
Cutting with knives served by their softest care | D |
Served by their love so barbarously fair | D |
Whose mothers taught You'd better not be cruel | G |
You had better not throw stones upon the wrens | H |
Herein they kiss and coddle and assault | I |
Anew and dearly in the innocence | H |
With which they baffle nature Who are full | J |
Sleek tender clad fit fiftyish a glow all | F |
Sweetly abortive hinting at fat fruit | K |
Judge it high time that fiftyish fingers felt | L |
Beneath the lovelier planes of enterprise | H |
To resurrect To moisten with milky chill | M |
To be a random hitching post or plush | N |
To be for wet eyes random and handy hem | O |
Their guild is giving money to the poor | P |
The worthy poor The very very worthy | Q |
And beautiful poor Perhaps just not too swarthy | Q |
perhaps just not too dirty nor too dim | R |
Nor passionate In truth what they could wish | S |
Is something less than derelict or dull | G |
Not staunch enough to stab though gaze for gaze | H |
God shield them sharply from the beggar bold | T |
The noxious needy ones whose battle's bald | U |
Nonetheless for being voiceless hits one down | V |
But it's all so bad and entirely too much for them | O |
The stench the urine cabbage and dead beans | H |
Dead porridges of assorted dusty grains | H |
The old smoke heavy diapers and they're told | T |
Something called chitterlings The darkness Drawn | W |
Darkness or dirty light The soil that stirs | H |
The soil that looks the soil of centuries | H |
And for that matter the general oldness Old | T |
Wood Old marble Old tile Old old old | T |
Not homekind Oldness Not Lake Forest Glencoe | B |
Nothing is sturdy nothing is majestic | B |
There is no quiet drama no rubbed glaze no | X |
Unkillable infirmity of such | Y |
A tasteful turn as lately they have left | Z |
Glencoe Lake Forest and to which their cars | H |
Must presently restore them When they're done | A2 |
With dullards and distortions of this fistic | B |
Patience of the poor and put upon | B2 |
They've never seen such a make do ness as | H |
Newspaper rugs before In this this 'flat ' | C2 |
Their hostess is gathering up the oozed the rich | D2 |
Rugs of the morning tattered the bespattered | Z |
Readies to spread clean rugs for afternoon | E2 |
Here is a scene for you The Ladies look | B |
In horror behind a substantial citizeness | H |
Whose trains clank out across her swollen heart | Z |
Who arms akimbo almost fills a door | F2 |
All tumbling children quilts dragged to the floor | F2 |
And tortured thereover potato peelings soft | Z |
Eyed kitten hunched up haggard to be hurt | Z |
Their League is allotting largesse to the Lost | Z |
But to put their clean their pretty money to put | Z |
Their money collected from delicate rose fingers | H |
Tipped with their hundred flawless rose nails seems | H |
They own Spode Lowestoft candelabra | G2 |
Mantels and hostess gowns and sunburst clocks | H |
Turtle soup Chippendale red satin 'hangings ' | C2 |
Aubussons and Hattie Carnegie They Winter | H2 |
In Palm Beach cross the Water in June attend | Z |
When suitable the nice Art Institute | Z |
Buy the right books in the best bindings saunter | H2 |
On Michigan Easter mornings in sun or wind | Z |
Oh Squalor This sick four story hulk this fibre | H2 |
With fissures everywhere Why what are bringings | H |
Of loathe love largesse What shall peril hungers | H |
So old old what shall flatter the desolate | Z |
Tin can blocked fire escape and chitterling | B |
And swaggering seeking youth and the puzzled wreckage | I2 |
Of the middle passage and urine and stale shames | H |
And again the porridges of the underslung | B |
And children children children Heavens That | Z |
Was a rat surely off there in the shadows Long | B |
And long tailed Gray The Ladies from the Ladies' | H |
Betterment League agree it will be better | H2 |
To achieve the outer air that rights and steadies | H |
To hie to a house that does not holler to ring | B |
Bells elsetime better presently to cater | H2 |
To no more Possibilities to get | Z |
Away Perhaps the money can be posted | Z |
Perhaps they two may choose another Slum | J2 |
Some serious sooty half unhappy home | K2 |
Where loathe love likelier may be invested | Z |
Keeping their scented bodies in the center | H2 |
Of the hall as they walk down the hysterical hall | F |
They allow their lovely skirts to graze no wall | F |
Are off at what they manage of a canter | H2 |
And resuming all the clues of what they were | H2 |
Try to avoid inhaling the laden air | D |
Gwendolyn Brooks
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