Up From The Floor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCD E F G| They sit in silence In camera around the table Terrifyingly stern stares that grew antlers in my eyes | A |
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| It was as if thunder or bolts with electricity were being decreed | B |
| The self important the pompous well fed and self assured | C |
| Here to hazard a fling of the dice to decide whether another should eat | D |
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| Employment The interview One with yellow tusks protruding to his coffee cup Eyes some primordial forest cut for a firebreak back of his soul And I think of the desperate those lacking bus fare to get to such a carnival Valuable postage money photocopying scrimped dollars for a suit to entertain the pumpkins dicing for a worthless garment A scavenger run piles of white applications heaped as bones in a graveyard made careless after a violent storm | E |
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| Or elephants in tow trunks wrapped around the other waiting for the ringmaster to signal the question important whether a neophyte new at sharpening his teeth at a daily wage should be allowed presence onto such a hallowed ground | F |
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| And I think such things are the very matter of evil that these are vile intemperates with their accursed shortlists deigning to be gracious shaking hands after the fact Mafioso manners the sickly grins back of the shovels used to bury another | G |
Paul Cameron Brown
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