Searching For Pittsburgh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKHLMFNOPQR STUVWXY Z| The fox pushes softly blindly through me at night | A |
| between the liver and the stomach Comes to the heart | B |
| and hesitates Considers and then goes around it | C |
| Trying to escape the mildness of our violent world | D |
| Goes deeper searching for what remains of Pittsburgh | E |
| in me The rusting mills sprawled gigantically | F |
| along three rivers The authority of them | G |
| The gritty alleys where we played every evening were | H |
| stained pink by the inferno always surging in the sky | I |
| as though Christ and the Father were still fashioning the Earth | J |
| Locomotives driving through the cold rain | K |
| lordly and bestial in their strength Massive water | H |
| flowing morning and night throughout a city | L |
| girded with ninety bridges Sumptuous shouldered | M |
| sleek thighed obstinate and majestic unquenchable | F |
| All grip and flood mighty sucking and deep rooted grace | N |
| A city of brick and tired wood Ox and sovereign spirit | O |
| Primitive Pittsburgh Winter month after month telling | P |
| of death The beauty forcing us as much as harshness | Q |
| Our spirits forged in that wilderness our minds forged | R |
| by the heart Making together a consequence of America | S |
| The fox watched me build my Pittsburgh again and again | T |
| In Paris afternoons on Buttes Chaumont On Greek islands | U |
| with their fields of stone In beds with women sometimes | V |
| amid their gentleness Now the fox will live in our ruined | W |
| house My tomatoes grow ripe among weeds and the sound | X |
| of water In this happy place my serious heart has made | Y |
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| Submitted by Joe Shields | Z |
Jack Gilbert
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