A Man Meets A Woman In The Street Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGGHBIBJKLMNOP GQGBGA BRG ODBBB BBSBDTBBBT BDBB BB BG DDDDDBUVGGKBBW BBDGTBVXYZDDGTDA2VB B| Under the separated leaves of shade | A |
| Of the gingko that old tree | B |
| That has existed essentially unchanged | C |
| Longer than any other living tree | B |
| I walk behind a woman Her hair's coarse gold | D |
| Is spun from the sunlight that it rides upon | E |
| Women were paid to knit from sweet champagne | F |
| Her second skin it winds and unwinds winds | G |
| Up her long legs delectable haunches | G |
| As she sways in sunlight up the gazing aisle | H |
| The shade of the tree that is called maidenhair | B |
| That is not positively known | I |
| To exist in a wild state spots her fair or almost fair | B |
| Hair twisted in a French twist tall or almost tall | J |
| She walks through the air the rain has washed a clear thing | K |
| Moving easily on its high heels seeming to men | L |
| Miraculous Since I can call her as Swann couldn't | M |
| A woman who is my type I follow with the warmth | N |
| Of familiarity of novelty this new | O |
| Example of the type | P |
| Reminded of how Lorenz's just hatched goslings | G |
| Shook off the last remnants of the egg | Q |
| And looking at Lorenz realized that Lorenz | G |
| Was their mother Quaking his little family | B |
| Followed him everywhere and when they met a goose | G |
| Their mother they ran to him afraid | A |
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| Imprinted upon me | B |
| Is the shape I run to the sweet strange | R |
| Breath taking contours that breathe to me 'I am yours | G |
| Be mine ' | - |
| Following this new | O |
| Body somehow familiar this young shape somehow old | D |
| For a moment I'm younger the century is younger | B |
| the living Strauss his moustache just getting gray | B |
| Is shouting to the players 'Louder | B |
| Louder I can still hear Madame Schumann Heink ' | - |
| Or else white bald the old man's joyfully | B |
| Telling conductors they must play Elektra | B |
| Like A Midsummer Night's Dream like a fairy music | S |
| Proust dying is swallowing his iced beer | B |
| And changing in proof the death of Bergotte | D |
| According to his own experience Garbo | T |
| A commissar in Paris is listening attentively | B |
| To the voice telling how McGillicuddy me McGillivray | B |
| And McGillivray said to McGillicuddy no McGillicuddy | B |
| Said to McGillivray that is McGillivray Garbo | T |
| Says seriously 'I vish dey'd never met ' | - |
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| As I walk behind this woman I remember | B |
| That before I flew here waked in the forest | D |
| At dawn by the piece called Birds Beginning Day | B |
| That each day birds play to begin the day | B |
| I wished as men wish 'May this day be different ' | - |
| The birds were wishing as birds wish over and over | B |
| With a last firmness intensity reality | B |
| 'May this day be the same ' | - |
| Ah turn to me | B |
| And look into my eyes say 'I am yours | G |
| Be mine ' | - |
| My wish will have come true And yet | D |
| When your eyes meet my eyes they'll bring into | D |
| The weightlessness of my pure wish the weight | D |
| Of a human being someone to help or hurt | D |
| Someone to be good to me to be good to | D |
| Someone to cry when I am angry | B |
| that she doesn't like Elektra someone to start on Proust with | U |
| A wish come true is life I have my life | V |
| When you turn just slide your eyes across my eyes | G |
| And show in a look flickering across your face | G |
| As lightly as a leaf's shade a bird's wing | K |
| That there is no one in the world quit like me | B |
| That if only If only | B |
| That will be enough | W |
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| But I've pretended long enough I walk faster | B |
| And come close touch with the tip of my finger | B |
| The nape of her neck just where the gold | D |
| Hair stops and the champagne colored dress begins | G |
| My finger touches her as the gingko's shadow | T |
| Touches her | B |
| Because after all it is my wife | V |
| In a new dress from Bergdorf's walking toward the park | X |
| She cries out we kiss each other and walk arm in arm | Y |
| Through the sunlight that's much too good for New York | Z |
| The sunlight of our own house in the forest | D |
| Still though the poor things need it We've no need | D |
| To start out on Proust to ask each other about Strauss | G |
| We first helped each other hurt each other years ago | T |
| After so many changes made and joys repeated | D |
| Our first bewildered transcending recognition | A2 |
| Is pure acceptance We can't tell our life | V |
| From our wish Really I began the day | B |
| Not with a man's wish 'May this day be different ' | - |
| But with the birds' wish 'May this day | B |
| Be the same day the day of my life ' | - |
Randall Jarrell
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