Regarding Art Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACD EADFAA GHAIJKK LMKKKKNAA EOPAK KKAAAAB QKAKKKKKARKBSA Q| Sometimes 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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