Poem About People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL LMND KOPQ RSTU VWIA IXYZ A2B2C2D2 AE2TF2 ITG2E2 MH2I2J2 KIAL| The jaunty crop haired graying | A |
| Women in grocery stores | B |
| Their clothes boyish and neat | C |
| New mittens or clean sneakers | D |
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| Clean hands hips not bad still | E |
| Buying ice cream steaks soda | F |
| Fresh melons and soap or the big | G |
| Balding young men in work shoes | H |
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| And green work pants beer belly | I |
| And white T shirt the porky walk | J |
| Back to the truck polite possible | K |
| To feel briefly like Jesus | L |
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| A gust of diffuse tenderness | L |
| Crossing the dark spaces | M |
| To where the dry self burrows | N |
| Or nests something that stirs | D |
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| Watching the kinds of people | K |
| On the street for a while | O |
| But how love falters and flags | P |
| When anyone s difficult eyes come | Q |
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| Into focus terrible gaze of a unique | R |
| Soul its need unlovable my friend | S |
| In his divorced schoolteacher | T |
| Apartment his own unsuspected | U |
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| Paintings hung everywhere | V |
| Which his wife kept in a closet | W |
| Not he says that she wasn t | I |
| Perfectly right or me mis hearing | A |
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| My rock radio sing my self pity | I |
| The Angels Wished Him Dead all | X |
| The hideous sudden stare of self | Y |
| Soul showing through like the lizard | Z |
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| Ancestry showing in the frontal gaze | A2 |
| Of a robin busy on the lawn | B2 |
| In the movies when the sensitive | C2 |
| Young Jewish soldier nearly drowns | D2 |
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| Trying to rescue the thrashing | A |
| Anti semitic bully swimming across | E2 |
| The river raked by nazi fire | T |
| The awful part is the part truth | F2 |
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| Hate my whole kind but me | I |
| Love me for myself The weather | T |
| Changes in the black of night | G2 |
| And the dream wind bowling across | E2 |
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| The sopping open spaces | M |
| Of roads golf courses parking lots | H2 |
| Flails a commotion | I2 |
| In the dripping treetops | J2 |
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| Tries a half rotten shingle | K |
| Or a down hung branch and we | I |
| All dream it the dark wind crossing | A |
| The wide spaces between us | L |
Robert Pinsky
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