Hook Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBE FGHIJKLJ MNO PQJR MSTU QPV WXYIJZ IA2I| I was only a young man | A |
| In those days On that evening | B |
| The cold was so God damned | C |
| Bitter there was nothing | B |
| Nothing I was in trouble | D |
| With a woman and there was nothing | B |
| There but me and dead snow | E |
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| I stood on the street corner | F |
| In Minneapolis lashed | G |
| This way and that | H |
| Wind rose from some pit | I |
| Hunting me | J |
| Another bus to Saint Paul | K |
| Would arrive in three hours | L |
| If I was lucky | J |
| - | |
| Then the young Sioux | M |
| Loomed beside me his scars | N |
| Were just my age | O |
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| Ain't got no bus here | P |
| A long time he said | Q |
| You got enough money | J |
| To get home on | R |
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| What did they do | M |
| To your hand I answered | S |
| He raised up his hook into the terrible starlight | T |
| And slashed the wind | U |
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| Oh that he said | Q |
| I had a bad time with a woman Here | P |
| You take this | V |
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| Did you ever feel a man hold | W |
| Sixty five cents | X |
| In a hook | Y |
| And place it | I |
| Gently | J |
| In your freezing hand | Z |
| - | |
| I took it | I |
| It wasn't the money I needed | A2 |
| But I took it | I |
James Arlington Wright
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