Next Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBE FGHIGF JKLKKM JNJJOP QIRSIT UVWXVY ZA2B2C2A2Q D2JE2F2JG2 DWOJJJ DH2DJI2J| Moving from Cheer to Joy from Joy to All | A |
| I take a box | B |
| And add it to my wild rice my Cornish game hens | C |
| The slacked or shorted basketed identical | D |
| Food gathering flocks | B |
| Are selves I overlook Wisdom said William James | E |
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| Is learning what to overlook And I am wise | F |
| If that is wisdom | G |
| Yet somehow as I buy All from these shelves | H |
| And the boy takes it to my station wagon | I |
| What I've become | G |
| Troubles me even if I shut my eyes | F |
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| When I was young and miserable and pretty | J |
| And poor I'd wish | K |
| What all girls wish to have a husband | L |
| A house and children Now that I'm old my wish | K |
| Is womanish | K |
| That the boy putting groceries in my car | M |
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| See me It bewilders me he doesn't see me | J |
| For so many years | N |
| I was good enough to eat the world looked at me | J |
| And its mouth watered How often they have undressed me | J |
| The eyes of strangers | O |
| And holding their flesh within my flesh their vile | P |
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| Imaginings within my imagining | Q |
| I too have taken | I |
| The chance of life Now the boy pats my dog | R |
| And we start home Now I am good | S |
| The last mistaken | I |
| Ecstatic accidental bliss the blind | T |
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| Happiness that bursting leaves upon the palm | U |
| Some soap and water | V |
| It was so long ago back in some Gay | W |
| Twenties Nineties I don't know Today I miss | X |
| My lovely daughter | V |
| Away at school my sons away at school | Y |
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| My husband away at work I wish for them | Z |
| The dog the maid | A2 |
| And I go through the sure unvarying days | B2 |
| At home in them As I look at my life | C2 |
| I am afraid | A2 |
| Only that it will change as I am changing | Q |
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| I am afraid this morning of my face | D2 |
| It looks at me | J |
| From the rear view mirror with the eyes I hate | E2 |
| The smile I hate Its plain lined look | F2 |
| Of gray discovery | J |
| Repeats to me You're old That's all I'm old | G2 |
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| And yet I'm afraid as I was at the funeral | D |
| I went to yesterday | W |
| My friend's cold made up face granite among its flowers | O |
| Her undressed operated on dressed body | J |
| Were my face and body | J |
| As I think of her and I hear her telling me | J |
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| How young I seem I am exceptional | D |
| I think of all I have | H2 |
| But really no one is exceptional | D |
| No one has anything I'm anybody | J |
| I stand beside my grave | I2 |
| Confused with my life that is commonplace and solitary | J |
Randall Jarrell
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