A Garden In Chicago Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFGHA IJKLMN OPQRQSTU Q| In the mid city under an oiled sky | A |
| I lay in a garden of such dusky green | B |
| It seemed the dregs of the imagination | C |
| Hedged round by elegant spears of iron fence | D |
| My face became a moon to absent suns | E |
| A low heat beat upon my reading face | F |
| There rose no roses in that gritty place | F |
| But blue gray lilacs hung their tassels out | G |
| Hard zinnias and ugly marigolds | H |
| And one sweet statue of a child stood by | A |
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| A gutter of poetry flowed outside the yard | I |
| Making me think I was a bird of prose | J |
| For overhead bagged in a golden cloud | K |
| There hung the fatted souls of animals | L |
| Wile at my eyes bright dots of butterflies | M |
| Turned off and on like distant neon signs | N |
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| Assuming that this garden still exists | O |
| One ancient lady patrols the zinnias | P |
| She looks like George Washington crossing the Delaware | Q |
| The janitor wanders to the iron rail | R |
| The traffic mounts bombastically out there | Q |
| And across the street in a pitch black bar | S |
| With midnight mirrors the professional | T |
| Takes her first whiskey of the afternoon | U |
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| Ah It is like a breath of country air | Q |
Karl Shapiro
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