Poem About People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL LMND KOPQ RSTU VWIA IXYZ A2B2C2D2 AE2TF2 ITG2E2 MH2I2J2 KIALThe 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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