First Things To Hand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EE EF GF HI JJ KL MM NO PJ QJ RS| In the skull kept on the desk | A |
| In the spider pod in the dust | B |
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| Or nowhere In milkmaids in loaves | C |
| Or nowhere And if Socrates leaves | D |
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| His house in the morning | E |
| When he returns in the evening | E |
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| He will find Socrates waiting | E |
| On the doorstep Buddha the stick | F |
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| You use to clear the path | G |
| And Buddha the dog doo you flick | F |
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| Away with it nowhere or in each | H |
| Several thing you touch | I |
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| The dollar bill the button | J |
| That works the television | J |
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| Even in the joke the three | K |
| Words American men say | L |
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| After making love Where's | M |
| The remote In the tears | M |
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| In things proximate intimate | N |
| In the wired stem with root | O |
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| And leaf nowhere of this lamp | P |
| Brass base aura of illumination | J |
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| Enlightenment shade of grief | Q |
| Odor of the lamp brazen | J |
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| The mind waiting in the mind | R |
| As in the first thing to hand | S |
Robert Pinsky
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