Boca Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEFG B HHIIIB JB KBBLM NO PE BB BBF QRB SSTB UB BVW BXY FZ EA2 FB2C2ID2 E2BF2G2FE BBB BKUH2IB BHIF B I2UD F2B BF IBB D2 J2J2J2N UK2 X B2LFVE IL2 IBM2B N2 F L O2P2LIE Q2 A2ABBXSU F2E XB I2KJ2E FR2 S2T2 E U2V2 FJ2B W2IOB F I UBE SHLX2 B VF NY2F Z2 UIA3 LL IB3 IVJ IFUU XE KI IE BC3| Nature abhors a vacuum theorists of both philosophy and | A |
| politics assure us | B |
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| What's more the phenomena is not confined to mere | C |
| physical science given the nature of human opportunism | D |
| Glance a map of central Europe for further insights One | E |
| side always replaced the other when a common enemy | F |
| expired | G |
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| Boca might well have studied such eventualities | B |
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| Boca was a writer More accurately a touch dancer with | H |
| the written phrase deftly painting the catchy one liner with | H |
| effortless ease and grace Boca knew his craft be it the | I |
| arena of story poem drama it didn't matter the genre | I |
| Unfortunately his oeuvre remained fixed and static Boca | I |
| never progressed beyond titles | B |
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| A right jolly good thing too said Boca in his own | J |
| defense | B |
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| The short burst counted most whether in thought sport or | K |
| field of battle The utterance of a single breath That was | B |
| it It all lay in the aside the pun a retort the r cit If this | B |
| were all to the story there would be no doubt whatsoever | L |
| Boca excelled | M |
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| In the briefest expression perhaps said the critics But | N |
| as they were quick to point out it didn't lead anywhere | O |
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| Where is the larger more important fruit His finished | P |
| verbal passion intoned one | E |
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| Still this chance fortune led to the inspiration and success | B |
| of unusually vivid titles | B |
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| But titles Just titles said others nervously Yes | B |
| proclaimed Boca Titles Not epithets or rejoinders | B |
| cat calls even repartee | F |
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| Not even wit in the normal understanding of the term Just | Q |
| mere titles Bushel baskets of them Worried looks crept | R |
| onto the onlookers' faces | B |
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| Encyclopaedic came the flowering Ad factories should | S |
| have tapped such a larder Any creative department could | S |
| have done worse than with Boca's dripping imagery and gift | T |
| for the keynote phrase | B |
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| There is majesty here said one and more than a little | U |
| Blake I am reminded of the great symbolists | B |
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| One has to be practical cautioned still another What's | B |
| here is hardly epigrammatic or even purely an aphorism in | V |
| any truer sense of the word | W |
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| I'm simply perplexed said the man finally to his | B |
| colleague and both left without further ado or thought to | X |
| Boca's work | Y |
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| Indeed Boca loved his words tinkering with the very | F |
| essence of language | Z |
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| A great beginning cheered a rare voice Let's hope one | E |
| without premature end | A2 |
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| Boca continued to conceive titles by the hundreds He | F |
| didn't merely dream up a few in snatches he proliferated | B2 |
| them in vaster and vaster quantities It was if a salmon left | C2 |
| to spawn could endanger a sea shelf or river bed under the | I |
| sheer quantity of her seed | D2 |
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| A one man explosion at the typewriter chortled an | E2 |
| onlooker happening to see the quantity of Boca's largesse | B |
| That was before he stopped to inquire of the nature of | F2 |
| Boca's work Then perturbed this same man hurried away | G2 |
| to the utter indifference of Boca who kept a steady | F |
| pounding in spite of the interruption | E |
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| On they came More and more titles By the hundreds | B |
| for scripts larger dramas treatises epistles monologues | B |
| All And all without a scarce concern for their ultimate use | B |
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| Are we to believe each one came to naught as the sceptics | B |
| predicted After all in this practical world who has use for | K |
| dreamers We already know Boca was stymied at the title | U |
| level Nothing ever graced his newborn creation beyond | H2 |
| that first utterance It was like sending a baby into the | I |
| world without proper bedding or clothes | B |
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| One nastier commentator even alluded to Boca's work as | B |
| the equivalent of premature ejaculation All buildup with | H |
| no satisfaction The promise he chuckled without the | I |
| delivery | F |
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| And that is what came to pass | B |
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| Each of Boca's titles true to prediction came to naught | I2 |
| or rather nothing much Blank A zero With each title | U |
| one ran aground on the larger abyss of its central problem | D |
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| That being as Boca had been warned by his legion of | F2 |
| critics one of size | B |
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| What good are titles without textual description chapters | B |
| scenes the overview said one literary agent gruffly | F |
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| Boca taking a respite from his typewriter had had the | I |
| temerity to approach one such man in the comfort of his | B |
| office with reams of suggestions | B |
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| Indeed | D2 |
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| People shook their heads at Boca always scribbling | J2 |
| furiously Always working but apparently accomplishing | J2 |
| precious next to nothing Something was evidently being | J2 |
| done in the strictest sense of the word but what What | N |
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| Could his well problem be explained one vocal | U |
| opponent of Boca urged | K2 |
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| What the hell is he up to | X |
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| Strangely enough for the seemingly longest time this did | B2 |
| not deter Boca He was his own universe His feet were | L |
| on solid ground The air about him teemed with ideas He | F |
| was too busy fishing for the mot juste he explained in | V |
| a moment of clarification | E |
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| One man in the right is a majority proclaimed Boca | I |
| remembering a snippet of John Stuart Mill | L2 |
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| Too busy was Boca replanning the structure of the | I |
| Colosseum so it might better accommodate his label his | B |
| notion his re christened version of the ideal verbal escort | M2 |
| to accompany that ancient edifice | B |
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| And write Boca did Titles fell increasingly from his pen | N2 |
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| The Barking Tree | F |
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| The Leaking River | L |
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| These were but two Boca thought he would improve on | O2 |
| Tolkein's efforts at least in the direction of title After all | P2 |
| to send a work into the reader's lap without proper | L |
| introduction was like trying to get acquainted without the | I |
| proper introduction | E |
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| Maybe Boca had a point | Q2 |
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| Assembly without Hope and Nirvana without End | A2 |
| touched on his mystical stage He dropped this and | A |
| proceeded into the area of historiography And afterwards | B |
| dry epistemology would see him concentrate his efforts | B |
| These forums were indeed worthy of his attention Too | X |
| long had they been neglected All were in need of good | S |
| metaphoric dusting by title | U |
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| At last word Boca was inching toward Kant's Critique of | F2 |
| Pure Reason | E |
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| That one in particular has a poor ring he was heard to | X |
| say | B |
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| On they came Precise Hard hitting or so he thought | I2 |
| They made the mind's eye swell with the promise of more | K |
| and more Indeed that eye could get bloodshot reading | J2 |
| all of Boca's interception | E |
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| But the more in the sense of the follow up the delivery | F |
| or accompaniment of pages never came | R2 |
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| Nowhere was there to be found the Hemingway to follow | S2 |
| the Moveable Feast | T2 |
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| Or The Edible Woman | E |
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| Even the promise of thrillers for a scary submarine epic like | U2 |
| Three Eggs on my Plate never materialized | V2 |
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| Nothing Just titles More then more and increasingly | F |
| more of them Annoyingly so Scraps of paper decorating | J2 |
| a table without an intended victim ever coming close | B |
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| It was as if so many salesgirls had left price tags off | W2 |
| matching merchandise That's all that remained Just the | I |
| stickers forlornly white and detached staring up from their | O |
| adhesiveness | B |
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| More than just a little tacky | F |
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| A woman given to comparison confronted Boca | I |
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| Imagine a zoo where the curators had all the animal | U |
| names but they were not paired with their owners That's | B |
| your stuff Everything in a weird isolation | E |
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| Boca could not be Borca and not even Carl Sagan could | S |
| rescue him No large bottles floating in formaldehyde with | H |
| the decapitated heads from Belle Epoque sailors were | L |
| possible here | X2 |
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| Boca was more obscure than Gaspirilla Island More so | B |
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| And a final verdict if there is need for one can be seen in | V |
| Boca's last will and testimony | F |
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| He let it be known of his intention to chisel the ultimate | N |
| one liner One to grace his own tombstone On this he set | Y2 |
| to work with a last burst of frenzy | F |
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| To mirror my tragic comic fate as he would have said | Z2 |
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| Perhaps Boca is still at work either on the snappy final | U |
| wording the right elasticity or in the mechanics of the | I |
| engraving itself | A3 |
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| Only a stone cutter could estimate the probable expenditure | L |
| in time for the latter | L |
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| Novelists in dire need of fresh insights should enlist Boca | I |
| He's definitely available if difficult to reach | B3 |
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| Boca might have rescued many a masterpiece from the | I |
| dustbin if not the Box Office had his specialty been | V |
| known | J |
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| I look at Boca and hear fire bells His plight remains the | I |
| very stuff of tragedy By epic standards how many Bocas | F |
| are there worthy of a balladeer and myth maker Credible | U |
| Boca may be but understandable | U |
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| Boca the metaphoric equivalent of a Sisyphus chained to | X |
| his rock of obsession | E |
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| This horrible rock or pebble depending on your | K |
| viewpoint wailed Boca | I |
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| I've become my own obstacle my work is the | I |
| personification of my own limitation | E |
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| Worse imprisoned in an inescapable logic and the narrow | B |
| confines of a blink of talent | C3 |
Paul Cameron Brown
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