Pockets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHI JKL MNO PQR STU| Are generally over or around | A |
| Erogenous zones they seem to dive | B |
| In the direction of those | C |
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| Dark places and indeed | D |
| It is their nature to be dark | E |
| Themselves keeping a kind | F |
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| Of thieves' kitchen for the things | G |
| Sequestered from the world | H |
| For long or little while | I |
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| The keys the handkerchiefs | J |
| The sad and vagrant little coins | K |
| That are really only passing through | L |
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| For all they locate close to lust | M |
| No pocket ever sees another | N |
| There is in fact a certain sadness | O |
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| To pockets going in their lonesome ways | P |
| And snuffling up their sifting storms | Q |
| Of dust tobacco bits and lint | R |
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| A pocket with a hole in it | S |
| Drops out from shame is that or pride | T |
| What is a pocket but a hole | U |
Howard Nemerov
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