Six Poems For Poetry Chicago Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDCEBFGBBD HIJKLMNOPQRJST UVVW IXISYZA2B2 C2D2E2DF2BG2DH2I2 J2XK2L2NDM2N2C2OO2N2 P2Q2OONR2S2OO2T2J2GU 2V2W2X2Y2A | |
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Limon tree very pretty | B |
And the limon flower is sweet | C |
But the fruit of the poor lemon | D |
Is impossible to eat | C |
In Riverside we saved the oranges first by smudging and left | E |
the lemons last to fend for them selves They didn t usually | B |
A no good crop Smudge pots | F |
Didn t rouse them The music | G |
Is right though The lemon tree | B |
Could branch off into real magic Each flower in place We | B |
Were sickened by the old lemon | D |
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Pieces of the past arising out of the rubble Which evokes Eliot | H |
and then evokes Suspicion Ghosts all of them Doers of no | I |
good | J |
The past around us is deeper than | K |
Present events defy us the past | L |
Has no such scruples No funeral processions for him He died | M |
in agony The cock under the thumb | N |
Rest us as corpses | O |
We poets | P |
Vain words | Q |
For a funeral as I live and breathe and speak | R |
Of good | J |
And impossible | S |
Dimensions | T |
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In the far fat Vietnamese jungles nothing grows | U |
In Guadacanal nothing grew but a kind of shrubbery that was | V |
like the bar conversation of your best friend who was | V |
not able to talk | W |
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Sheets to the wind No | I |
Wind being present | X |
No | I |
Lifeboats being present A jungle | S |
Can t use life boats Dead | Y |
From whatever bullets the snipers were Each | Z |
Side of themselves Safe | A2 |
Ly delivered | B2 |
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The rind also called the skin of the lemon is difficult to | C2 |
understand | D2 |
It goes around itself in an oval quite unlike the orange which as | E2 |
anyone can tell is a fruit easily to be eaten | D |
It can be crushed in canneries into all sorts of extracts which are | F2 |
still not lemons Oranges have no such fate They re pretty | B |
much the same as they were Culls become frozen orange | G2 |
juice The best oranges are eaten | D |
It s the shape of the lemon I guess that causes trouble It s | H2 |
ovalness it s rind This is where my love somehow stops | I2 |
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A moment s rest I can t get a moment s rest without sleeping | J2 |
with you Yet each moment | X |
Seems so hard to figure Clocks | K2 |
Tell time In elaborate ceremonial they tick the seconds off | L2 |
what was to come | N |
Wake us at six in the morning with messages someone had given | D |
them the night before | M2 |
To pierce the darkness you need a clock that tells good time | N2 |
Something in the morning to hold on to | C2 |
As one gets craftier in poetry one sees the obvious messages | O |
cocks for clocks but one forgets the love that gave them | O2 |
Time | N2 |
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The moment s rest And the bodies entangled and yet not | P2 |
entangled in sleeping Could we get | Q2 |
Out of our skins and dance The bedclothes | O |
So awry that they seem like two skins | O |
Or all the sorts of skins that we wore wear the orgasm | N |
wanted to wear or would be wearing So utterly tangled | R2 |
A bad dream | S2 |
A moment s rest The skins | O |
All of them | O2 |
Near | T2 |
I saw the ghost of myself and the ghost of yourself dancing | J2 |
without music | G |
With | U2 |
Out | V2 |
Skin | W2 |
A good dream The | X2 |
Moment s rest | Y2 |
Jack Spicer
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