On The Great Atlantic Rainway Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFGHIJG KLMKDKKDDNNG MOOPQKKRSGGT U| I set forth one misted white day of June | A |
| Beneath the great Atlantic rainway and heard | B |
| Honestly you smite worlds of truth but | C |
| Lose your own trains of thought like a pigeon | D |
| Did you once ride in Kenneth s machine | E |
| Yes I rode there an old man in shorts blind | F |
| Who had lost his way in the filling station Kenneth was kind | F |
| Did he fill your motionless ears with resonance and stain | G |
| No he spoke not as a critic but as a man | H |
| Tell me what did he say He said | I |
| My eyes are the white sky the gravel on the groundway my sad lament | J |
| And yet he drives between the two Exactly Jane | G |
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| And that is the modern idea of fittingness | K |
| To always in motion lose nothing although beneath the | L |
| Rainway they move in threes and twos completely | M |
| Ruined for themselves like moving pictures | K |
| But how other Formulalessness to go from the sun | D |
| Into love s sweet disrepair He would fondly express | K |
| Rain trees which is not a poem rain trees | K |
| Still it is mysterious to have an engine | D |
| That floats bouquets and one day in the rear vision | D |
| Mirror of his car we vowed delight | N |
| The insufficiency of the silverware in the sunlight | N |
| The dreams he steals from and smiles losing gain | G |
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| Yet always beneath the rainway unsyntactical | M |
| Beauty might leap up That we might sing | O |
| From smiles ravines Rose the reverse of everything | O |
| May be profaned or talked at like a hat | P |
| Oh that was sweet and short like the minuet | Q |
| Of stars which would permit us to seem our best friends | K |
| By silver s eminent lights For nature is so small ends | K |
| Falsely reign distending the time we did | R |
| Behind our hope for body work riding with Kenneth | S |
| Their voicing ceased then started again to complain | G |
| That we are offered nothing when it starts to rain | G |
| In the same way though we are dying for the truth | T |
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| On the Great Atlantic Rainway from The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch published by Alfred A Knopf Inc Copyright by Kenneth Koch | U |
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