In The Next Street Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA ACCD EFFC FEFA GHAI AFCC FJFJ AFFF| there s only ever one argument his | A |
| bawling out whoever punctuates | A |
| the brief intervals his cussing | B |
| interrupts something unheard reason perhaps | A |
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| What you never get is silence | A |
| always some groan on the horizon | C |
| out on the borders of attention | C |
| where would be quiet if they let it | D |
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| Always some conversation far away | E |
| foreign banal dramatic translated | F |
| it means my wife s name is Judit | F |
| I am an engineer from Spidertown | C |
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| What to reply Your Majesty | F |
| my name is Smith All lies anyway | E |
| all we do is get drunk the evening s end | F |
| collapsing loosely into gutturals | A |
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| We drink to silence where the stars think | G |
| We drink to the music of the rain on the roof | H |
| We drink to mothers brothers lovers kids | A |
| to the candle burning down its length | I |
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| till someone blows it out Distance | A |
| makes no difference the same want | F |
| for love or money the numbers of the winning line | C |
| in the state lottery like a needle in the brain | C |
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| And then I ve had enough I want | F |
| to go home now far away to plug myself | J |
| back into the sockets the blackbird | F |
| the evening humming stories to itself | J |
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| everything in its place the moths | A |
| the mouse in the mousetrap and | F |
| in the next street the same old argument | F |
| He s sure he s right | F |
Ken Smith
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