The Galilee Hitch-hiker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEDFGHIJKLMNOPQ RQLS TDUVWE XB NYYUQZYX Q A2 Q B B2C2ED2E2DF2QG2XCG2G 2EH2G2I2 CG2 G2G2ECCD2DE J2QXG2G2 EG2 CK2C QG2QG2G2CEUCEDDL2 EG2 G2G2G2M2G2 XG2QEG2EG2CG2G2XN2QG 2O2EQEO2EG2 P2G2 G2P2EQ2B2CECEG2EG2G2 CDG2EQCR2S2Q B2G2 G2B2DG2QCG2B2T2G2QDQ DB2U2CDG2 XG2 G2G2CQQCCCV2G2QG2CN2 B2D2CCS2C EQThe Galilee Hitch Hiker | A |
Part | B |
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Baudelaire was | C |
driving a Model A | D |
across Galilee | E |
He picked up a | D |
hitch hiker named | F |
Jesus who had | G |
been standing among | H |
a school of fish | I |
feeding them | J |
pieces of bread | K |
'Where are you | L |
going ' asked | M |
Jesus getting | N |
into the front | O |
seat | P |
'Anywhere anywhere | Q |
out of this world ' | - |
shouted | R |
Baudelaire | Q |
'I'll go with you | L |
as far as | S |
Golgotha ' | - |
said Jesus | T |
'I have a | D |
concession | U |
at the carnival | V |
there and I | W |
must not be | E |
late ' | - |
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The American Hotel | X |
Part | B |
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Baudelaire was sitting | N |
in a doorway with a wino | Y |
on San Fransisco's skid row | Y |
The wino was a million | U |
years old and could remember | Q |
dinosaurs | Z |
Baudelaire and the wino | Y |
were drinking Petri Muscatel | X |
'One must always be drunk ' | - |
said Baudelaire | Q |
'I live in the American Hotel ' | - |
said the wino 'And I can | A2 |
remember dinosaurs ' | - |
'Be you drunken ceaselessly ' | - |
said Baudelaire | Q |
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Part | B |
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Baudelaire used to come | B2 |
to our house and watch | C2 |
me grind coffee | E |
That was in | D2 |
and we lived in the slums | E2 |
of Tacoma | D |
My mother would put | F2 |
the coffee beans in the grinder | Q |
I was a child | G2 |
and would turn the handle | X |
pretending that it was | C |
a hurdy gurdy | G2 |
and Baudelaire would pretend | G2 |
that he was a monkey | E |
hopping up and down | H2 |
and holding out | G2 |
a tin cup | I2 |
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The Flowerburgers | C |
Part | G2 |
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Baudelaire opened | G2 |
up a hamburger stand | G2 |
in San Fransisco | E |
but he put flowers | C |
between the buns | C |
People would come in | D2 |
and say 'Give me a | D |
hamburger with plenty | E |
of onions on it ' | - |
Baudelaire would give | J2 |
them a flowerburger | Q |
instead and the people | X |
would say 'What kind | G2 |
of a hamburger stand | G2 |
is this ' | - |
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The Hour of Eternity | E |
Part | G2 |
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'The Chinese | C |
read the time | K2 |
in the eyes | C |
of cats ' | - |
said Baudelaire | Q |
and went into | G2 |
a jewelry store | Q |
on Market Street | G2 |
He came out | G2 |
a few moments | C |
later carrying | E |
a twenty one | U |
jewel Siamese | C |
cat that he | E |
wore on the | D |
end of a | D |
golden chain | L2 |
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Salvador Dali | E |
Part | G2 |
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'Are you | G2 |
or aren't you | G2 |
going to eat | G2 |
your soup | M2 |
you bloody odd | G2 |
cloud merchant ' | - |
Jeanne Duval | X |
shouted | G2 |
hitting Baudelaire | Q |
on the back | E |
as he sat | G2 |
daydreaming | E |
out the window | G2 |
Baudelaire was | C |
startled | G2 |
Then he laughed | G2 |
like hell | X |
waving his spoon | N2 |
in the air | Q |
like a wand | G2 |
changing the room | O2 |
into a painting | E |
by Salvador | Q |
Dali changing | E |
the room | O2 |
into a painting | E |
by Van Gogh | G2 |
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A Baseball Game | P2 |
Part | G2 |
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Baudelaire went | G2 |
to a baseball game | P2 |
and bought a hot dog | E |
and lit up a pipe | Q2 |
of opium | B2 |
The New York Yankees | C |
were playing | E |
the Detroit Tigers | C |
In the fourth inning | E |
an angel committed | G2 |
suicide by jumping | E |
off a low cloud | G2 |
The angel landed | G2 |
on second base | C |
causing the | D |
whole infield | G2 |
to crack like | E |
a huge mirror | Q |
The game was | C |
called on | R2 |
account of | S2 |
fear | Q |
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Insane Asylum | B2 |
Part | G2 |
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Baudelaire went | G2 |
to the insane asylum | B2 |
disguised as a | D |
psychiatrist | G2 |
He stayed there | Q |
for two months | C |
and when he left | G2 |
the insane asylum | B2 |
loved him so much | T2 |
that it followed | G2 |
him all over | Q |
California | D |
and Baudelaire | Q |
laughed when the | D |
insane asylum | B2 |
rubbed itself | U2 |
up against his | C |
leg like a | D |
strange cat | G2 |
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My Insect Funeral | X |
Part | G2 |
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When I was a child | G2 |
I had a graveyard | G2 |
where I buried insects | C |
and dead birds under | Q |
a rose tree | Q |
I would bury the insects | C |
in tin foil and match boxes | C |
I would bury the birds | C |
in pieces of red cloth | V2 |
It was all very sad | G2 |
and I would cry | Q |
as I scooped the dirt | G2 |
into their small graves | C |
with a spoon | N2 |
Baudelaire would come | B2 |
and join in | D2 |
my insect funerals | C |
saying little prayers | C |
the size of | S2 |
dead birds | C |
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San Fransisco | E |
February | Q |
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