This Way To The Sixties: John Lennon's Death Five Years After Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCD EFGHI J KLMNOLN PQ N LRST UNNVWXEOYZA2AB2C2ZD2 E2D2F2| It was a red letter day and all within a decade the sixties | A |
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| Psychadelic and all because the Electric Circus opened up | B |
| Walking Yonge Street in the December cold aging | C |
| hippies the word itself a joke reminisced | D |
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| National Guardsmen for one doing post mortems on | E |
| their rifle butts record covers carrying the first life | F |
| sized zippers and mashed up rubber dolls Cher Bono | G |
| getting up nerve and a career to name her child | H |
| Chastity but walking off with a card | I |
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| By the end of the decade they were asking questions | J |
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| We had landed on the moon per schedule but who | K |
| would have believed in the efficacy of Rock or the | L |
| efficency of napham before Vietnam Frosted hair | M |
| Body paint The sixties produced a lot of it With one | N |
| bullet the Beatles the secular saviours were | O |
| breaking up Before they had finished reuniting the | L |
| world Before the history of music could be written | N |
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| Before John Lennon did we dare trust ourselves | P |
| World leaders gurus | Q |
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| That was the meaning of the assassination | N |
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| History won't budge an inch for neophytes The | L |
| Clockwork Orange was instructive but didn't go far | R |
| enough Frodo wouldn't live in Yorkville today if | S |
| given a chance | T |
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| Now for the most poignant mental lapse of the Candle | U |
| carriers mourners and mock biers with frozen | N |
| flowers Simply the reminder half the population | N |
| didn't share his vision Veterans grumbled The press | V |
| paid more attention to this solitary event than | W |
| Armistice Day Schoolchildren tittered What was | X |
| that The so called generation gap seemed poised on | E |
| that comment Then John's comment the Beatles were | O |
| more popular than Jesus Christ | Y |
| Donovan didn't survive tunes like Epistle to Dippy | Z |
| Lennon won't survive the Elvis Beatle syndrome | A2 |
| The lights are going out on the sixties | A |
| The eighties are austere | B2 |
| Cherry cokes are the memory of a laugh | C2 |
| The Purple Onion only causes perplexion like Charlie | Z |
| Brown's Great Pumpkin | D2 |
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| Forget about words like catalyst | E2 |
| Lennon was the conflageration | D2 |
| Graffiti after him has renewed licence | F2 |
Paul Cameron Brown
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