Picaroon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDE FGHIJE KLEEHMNO KHPEQ HREESKT DKEQUV WPKXEEQ KEYZOEQHHQ QA2 HEWEB2C2EEEEED2| Scouting the sun | A |
| thin clouds threadbare vests | B |
| barely to cover the horizon | A |
| the heat or the day canine | C |
| a hot tongue's intensily | D |
| splashing yr face | E |
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| The docks are quiet | F |
| prawn trawlers unloading gear | G |
| gar fish at the surface of the water | H |
| echoing little fins like | I |
| tiny waves green | J |
| into the shallows | E |
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| Bubbles anchor the lagoon | K |
| changing rivulets into sand | L |
| stone walls numbered in shards of glass | E |
| trade universal currency | E |
| but beware the proprietor | H |
| cobblestones up to his door | M |
| a candle in the window stoop | N |
| a creeking gate opened as an afterthought | O |
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| Come the picaroon | K |
| Spanish adventurer | H |
| lesser known rogue thief | P |
| a smile like piano keys | E |
| huevos sent back | Q |
| - | |
| I've seen the parfumerie | H |
| the snake pit | R |
| mongoose burrowing into the hills | E |
| after serpentine fer de lance | E |
| want bigger things waves can't splash away | S |
| scrawled slogans to turn | K |
| the human tide | T |
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| A bottle sits menacingly on the table | D |
| a universe on its own | K |
| imagine her little water droplets | E |
| the key to unerstanding | Q |
| a woman firm to the grasp | U |
| bare shouldered lips to the moon in twilight | V |
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| A coin stepped on in the street | W |
| perhaps a sou a centime centavo | P |
| a petty return | K |
| for rusting bells wedding the pavement | X |
| a centotaph alluding to sacrifice | E |
| or toil in the fields | E |
| to gain one circular disc | Q |
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| Bring a case of wine | K |
| those Puerto Rican girls | E |
| are dying to meet you | Y |
| the tune belts out | Z |
| and I see a yacht | O |
| riding emerald waves | E |
| think of swimming | Q |
| out to greet her | H |
| my skin opening the water | H |
| like a lizard's tongue | Q |
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| a sheaf of leaves pressed back | Q |
| a rock pitched to dislodge a noisy cat | A2 |
| - | |
| Who tempers desire | H |
| in the tropics | E |
| when the air is to eat | W |
| sand golden griddles | E |
| a harvest of warm wealth | B2 |
| piled as a miser's hoard | C2 |
| green more green skirting the city | E |
| experience my sacred vessel of purity | E |
| Think or cliff vines | E |
| mucous little curtains | E |
| then pathways up to the final alley | E |
| psychologically taut | D2 |
Paul Cameron Brown
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