Going To School Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABDEEFGGF HGIHGIJJKLLK| What shall I teach in the vivid afternoon | A |
| With the sun warming the blackboard and a slip | B |
| Of cloud catching my eye | C |
| Only the cones and sections of the moon | A |
| Out of some flaking page of scholarship | B |
| Only some foolish heresy | D |
| To counteract the authority of prose | E |
| The ink runs freely and the dry chalk flows | E |
| Into the silent night of seven slates | F |
| Where I create the universe as if | G |
| It grew out of some old rabbinic glyph | G |
| Or hung upon the necessity of Yeats | F |
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| O dry imaginations drink this dust | H |
| That grays the room and powders my coat sleeve | G |
| For in this shaft of light | I |
| I dance upon the intellectual crust | H |
| Of our own age and hold this make believe | G |
| Like holy work before your sight | I |
| This is the list of books that time has burned | J |
| These are the lines that only poets have learned | J |
| The frame of dreams the symbols that dilate | K |
| Yet when I turn from this dark exercise | L |
| I meet your bright and world considering eyes | L |
| That build and build and never can create | K |
Karl Shapiro
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