To My Father's Business Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIIJKLJJJAMLL NJNJNNFLOPMDPNMGLNQP RPJJJPPFMFJPJSTJULNN JSUUUUPVVLTWP| Leo bends over his desk | A |
| Gazing at a memorandum | B |
| While Stuart stands beside him | C |
| With a smile saying | D |
| 'Leo the order for those desks | E |
| Came in today | F |
| From Youngstown Needle and Thread ' | G |
| C Loth Inc there you are | H |
| Like Balboa the conqueror | I |
| Of those who want to buy office furniture | I |
| Or bar fixtures | J |
| In nineteen forty in Cincinnati Ohio | K |
| Secretaries pound out | L |
| Invoices on antique typewriters | J |
| Dactyllographs | J |
| And fingernail biters | J |
| I am sitting on a desk | A |
| Looking at my daddy | M |
| Who is proud of but feels unsure about | L |
| Some aspects of his little laddie | L |
| I will go on to explore | N |
| Deep and or nonsensical themes | J |
| While my father's on the dark hardwood floor | N |
| Hit by a couple of Ohio sunbeams | J |
| Kenny he says some day you'll work in the store | N |
| But I felt 'never more' or 'never ever' | N |
| Harvard was far away | F |
| World War Two was distant | L |
| Psychoanalysis was extremely expensive | O |
| All of these saved me from you | P |
| C Loth you made my father happy | M |
| I saw his face shining | D |
| He laughed a lot working in you | P |
| He said to Miss Ritter | N |
| His secretary | M |
| 'Ritt this is my boy Kenny ' | G |
| 'Hello there Kenny ' she said | L |
| My heart in an uproar | N |
| I loved you but couldn't think | Q |
| Of staying with you | P |
| I can see the virtues now | R |
| That could come from being in you | P |
| A sense of balance | J |
| Compromise and acceptance | J |
| Not isolated moments of brilliance | J |
| Like a girl without a shoe | P |
| But someone that you | P |
| Care for every day | F |
| Need for customers and the economy | M |
| Don't go away | F |
| There were little pamphlets | J |
| Distributed in you | P |
| About success in business | J |
| Each about eight to twelve pages long | S |
| One whole series of them | T |
| All ended with the words | J |
| 'P S He got the job' | U |
| One a story about a boy who said | L |
| 'I swept up the street Sir | N |
| Before you got up ' Or | N |
| 'There were five hundred extra catalogues | J |
| So I took them to people in the city who have a dog' | S |
| P S He got the job | U |
| I didn't get the job | U |
| I didn't think that I could do the job | U |
| I thought I might go crazy in the job | U |
| Staying in you | P |
| You whom I could love | V |
| But not be part of | V |
| The secretaries clicked | L |
| Their Smith Coronas closed at five p m | T |
| And took the streetcars to Kentucky then | W |
| And I left too | P |
Kenneth Koch
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