The History Of Jazz Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCBDEFGHIJKJLMNBOPQ FRSMTUFVWXYZA2B B2BBB2AB2AB2B2BYB2 C2D2BJB2B2B2E2 B2 TF2 G2| I | A |
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| The leaves of blue came drifting down | B |
| In the corner Madeleine Reierbacher was reading Lorna Doone | B |
| The bay s water helped to implement the structuring of the garden hose | C |
| The envelope fell Was it pink or was it red Consult Lorna Doone | B |
| There voyager you will find your answer The savant grapeade stands | D |
| Remember Madeleine Reierbacher Madeleine Reierbacher says | E |
| If you are happy there is no one to keep you from being happy | F |
| Don t let them Madeleine Reierbacher went into the racing car | G |
| The racing car was orange and red Madeleine Reierbacher drove to Beale Street | H |
| There Maddy doffed her garments to get into some more comfortable clothes | I |
| Jazz was already playing in Beale Street when Madeleine Reierbacher arrived there | J |
| Madeleine Reierbacher picked up the yellow horn and began to play | K |
| No one had ever heard anything comparable to the playing of Madeleine Reierbacher | J |
| What a jazz musician The pianist missed his beats because he was so excited | L |
| The drummer stared out the window in ecstasy at the yellow wooden trees | M |
| The orchestra played September in the Rain Mugging and I m Full of Love | N |
| Madeleine Reierbacher rolled up her sleeves she picked up her horn she played Blues in the Rain | B |
| It was the best jazz anyone had ever heard It was mentioned in the newspapers St Louis | O |
| Madeleine Reierbacher became a celebrity She played with Pesky Summerton and Muggsy Pierce | P |
| Madeleine cut numerous disks Her best waxings are Alpha Beta and Gamma | Q |
| And Wing Song One day Madeleine was riding on a donkey | F |
| When she came to a yellow light the yellow light did not change | R |
| Madeleine kept hoping it would change to green or red She said As long as you have confidence | S |
| You need be afraid of nothing Madeleine saw the red smokestacks she looked at the thin trees | M |
| And she regarded the railroad tracks The yellow light was unchanging Madeleine s donkey dropped dead | T |
| From his mortal load Madeleine Reierbacher when she fell to earth | U |
| Picked up a blade of grass and began to play The Blues cried the workmen of the vicinity | F |
| And they ran and came in great numbers to where Madeleine Reierbacher was | V |
| They saw her standing in that simple field beside the railroad track | W |
| Playing and they saw that light changing to green and red and they saw that donkey stand up | X |
| And rise into the sky and Madeleine Reierbacher was like a clot of blue | Y |
| In the midst of the blue of all that sky and the young farmers screamed | Z |
| In excitement and the workmen dropped their heavy boards and stones in their excitement | A2 |
| And they cried O Madeleine Reierbacher play us the Lead Flint Blues once again | B |
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| O railroad stations pennants evenings and lumberyards | B2 |
| When will you ever bring us such a beautiful soloist again | B |
| An argent strain shows on the reddish face of the sun | B |
| Madeleine Reierbacher stands up and screams I am getting wet You are all egotists | B2 |
| Her brain floats up into the lyric atmosphere of the sky | A |
| We must figure out a way to keep our best musicians with us | B2 |
| The finest we have always melt in the light blue sky | A |
| In the middle of a concert sometimes they disappear like anvils | B2 |
| The music comes down to us with sweet white hands on our shoulders | B2 |
| We stare up in surprise and we hear Madeleine s best known tune once again | B |
| If you ain t afraid of life life can t be afraid for you | Y |
| Madeleine Come back and sing to us | B2 |
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| Dick looked up from his blackboard | C2 |
| Had he really written a history of the jazz age | D2 |
| He stared at his television set the technicolor jazz program was coming on | B |
| The program that day was devoted to pictures of Madeleine Reierbacher | J |
| Playing her saxophone in the golden age of jazz | B2 |
| Dick looked at his blackboard It was a mass of green and orange lines | B2 |
| Here and there a red chalk line interlaced with the others | B2 |
| He stared attentively at the program | E2 |
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| It was a clear and blue white day Amos said The calibration is finished Now there need be no more jazz | B2 |
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| In his mountain home old Lucas Dog laughed when he heard what Amos had said | T |
| He smilingly picked up his yellow horn to play but all that came out of it was steam | F2 |
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| History of Jazz from The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch published by Alfred A Knopf Inc Copyright by Kenneth Koch | G2 |
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