Regarding Art Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACD EADFAA GHAIJKK LMKKKKNAA EOPAK KKAAAAB QKAKKKKKARKBSA QSometimes I too tell the ah's | A |
of my heart one by one | B |
like the blood red beads | A |
of a ruby rosary strung | C |
on strands of golden hair | D |
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But my | E |
poetry's muse | A |
takes to the air | D |
on wings made of steel | F |
like the I beams | A |
of my suspension bridges | A |
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I don't pretend | G |
the nightingale's lament | H |
to the rose isn't easy on the ears | A |
But the language | I |
that really speaks to me | J |
are Beethoven sonatas played | K |
on copper iron wood bone and catgut | K |
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You can have | L |
galloping off | M |
in a cloud of dust | K |
Me I wouldn't trade | K |
for the purest bred | K |
Arabian steed | K |
the sixth mph | N |
of my iron horse | A |
running on iron tracks | A |
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Sometimes my eye is caught like a big dumb fly | E |
by the masterly spider webs in the corners of my room | O |
But I really look up | P |
to the seventy seven story reinforced concrete mountains | A |
my blue shirted builders create | K |
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Were I to meet | K |
the male beauty | K |
young Adonis god of Byblos | A |
on a bridge I'd probably never notice | A |
but I can't help staring into my philosopher's glassy eyes | A |
or my fireman's square face | A |
red as a sweating sun | B |
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Though I can smoke | Q |
third class cigarettes filled | K |
on my electric workbenches | A |
I can't roll tobacco even the finest | K |
in paper by hand and smoke it | K |
I didn't | K |
wouldn't trade | K |
my wife dressed in her leather cap and jacket | K |
for Eve's nakedness | A |
Maybe I don't have a poetic soul | R |
What can I do | K |
when I love my own children | B |
more | S |
than mother Nature's | A |
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Trans by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk | Q |
Nazim Hikmet
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