Flotsam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACDA EFE GAHAAAAIJ AJAAKLLM DNOAP QKDDGRASOSA DATAUVA WWDXAJYZD AKWA KWJA KAKW OA2AVAB2Crass rays streaming from the vestibules | A |
Cafes glittering like jeweled teeth | B |
High flung signs | A |
Blinking yellow phosphorescent eyes | A |
Girls in black | C |
Circling monotonously | D |
About the orange lights | A |
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Nothing to guess at | E |
Save the darkness above | F |
Crouching like a great cat | E |
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In the dim lit square | G |
Where dishevelled trees | A |
Tustle with the wind the wind like a scythe | H |
Mowing their last leaves | A |
Arcs shimmering through a greenish haze | A |
Pale oval arcs | A |
Like ailing virgins | A |
Each out of a halo circumscribed | I |
Pallidly staring | J |
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Figures drift upon the benches | A |
With no more rustle than a dropped leaf settling | J |
Slovenly figures like untied parcels | A |
And papers wrapped about their knees | A |
Huddled one to the other | K |
Cringing to the wind | L |
The sided wind | L |
Leaving no breach untried | M |
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So many and all so still | D |
The fountain slobbering its stone basin | N |
Is louder than They | O |
Flotsam of the five oceans | A |
Here on this raft of the world | P |
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This old man's head | Q |
Has found a woman's shoulder | K |
The wind juggles with her shawl | D |
That flaps about them like a sail | D |
And splashes her red faded hair | G |
Over the salt stubble of his chin | R |
A light foam is on his lips | A |
As though dreams surged in him | S |
Breaking and ebbing away | O |
And the bare boughs shuffle above him | S |
And the twigs rattle like dice | A |
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She diffused like a broken beetle | D |
Sprawls without grace | A |
Her face gray as asphalt | T |
Her jaws sagging as on loosened hinges | A |
Shadows ply about her mouth | U |
Nimble shadows out of the jigging tree | V |
That dances above her its dance of dry bones | A |
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II | - |
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A uniformed front | W |
Paunched | W |
A glance like a blow | D |
The swing of an arm | X |
Verved vigorous | A |
Boot heels clanking | J |
In metallic rhythm | Y |
The blows of a baton | Z |
Quick staccato | D |
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There is a rustling along the benches | A |
As of dried leaves raked over | K |
And the old man lifts a shaking palsied hand | W |
Tucking the displaced paper about his knees | A |
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Colder | K |
And a frost under foot | W |
Acid corroding | J |
Eating through worn bootsoles | A |
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Drab forms blur into greenish vapor | K |
Through boughs like cross bones | A |
Pale arcs flare and shiver | K |
Like lilies in a wind | W |
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High over Broadway | O |
A far flung sign | A2 |
Glitters in indigo darkness | A |
And spurts again rhythmically | V |
Spraying great drops | A |
Red as a hemorrhage | B2 |
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