Life Cycle Of Common Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOKPI QRSTGUVWGXNYZA2B2C2S TCSSD2E2F2G2| Roughly figured this man of moderate habits | A |
| This average consumer of the middle class | B |
| Consumed in the course of his average life span | C |
| Just under half a million cigarettes | D |
| Four thousand fifths of gin and about | E |
| A quarter as much vermouth he drank | F |
| Maybe a hundred thousand cups of coffee | G |
| And counting his parents share it cost | H |
| Something like half a million dollars | I |
| To put him through life How many beasts | J |
| Died to provide him with meat belt and shoes | K |
| Cannot be certainly said | L |
| But anyhow | M |
| It is in this way that a man travels through time | N |
| Leaving behind him a lengthening trail | O |
| Of empty bottles and bones of broken shoes | K |
| Frayed collars and worn out or outgrown | P |
| Diapers and dinnerjackets silk ties and slickers | I |
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| Given the energy and security thus achieved | Q |
| He did What The usual things of course | R |
| The eating dreaming drinking and begetting | S |
| And he worked for the money which was to pay | T |
| For the eating et cetera which were necessary | G |
| If he were to go on working for the money et cetera | U |
| But chiefly he talked As the bottles and bones | V |
| Accumulated behind him the words proceeded | W |
| Steadily from the front of his face as he | G |
| Advanced into the silence and made it verbal | X |
| Who can tally the tale of his words A lifetime | N |
| Would barely suffice for their repetition | Y |
| If you merely printed all his commas the result | Z |
| Would be a very large volume and the number of times | A2 |
| He said thank you or very little sugar please | B2 |
| Would stagger the imagination There were also | C2 |
| Witticisms platitudes and statements beginning | S |
| It seems to me or As I always say | T |
| Consider the courage in all that and behold the man | C |
| Walking into deep silence with the ectoplastic | S |
| Cartoon s balloon of speech proceeding | S |
| Steadily out of the front of his face the words | D2 |
| Borne along on the breath which is his spirit | E2 |
| Telling the numberless tale of his untold Word | F2 |
| Which makes the world his apple and forces him to eat | G2 |
Howard Nemerov
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