Poem For My Twentieth Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEC FCGH| Passing the American graveyard for my birthday | A |
| the crosses stuttering white on tropical green | B |
| the years quick focus of faces I do not remember | C |
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| The palm trees stalking like deliberate giants | D |
| for my birthday and all the hot adolescent memories | E |
| seen through a screen of water | C |
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| For my birthday thrust into the adult and actual | F |
| expected to perform the action not to ponder | C |
| the reality beyond the fact | G |
| the man standing upright in the dream | H |
Kenneth Koch
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