The Green Piano Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC AAD EAA AFA GHH IJK LMN OPQ RKS TU VKS KWA TSX| Aeolian Gratis Great thunderer half ton infant of miracles | A |
| Torn free of charge from the universe by my mother's will | B |
| You must have amazed that half respectable street | C |
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| Of triple decker families and rooming house housepainters | A |
| The day that the bole ankled oversized hams of your legs | A |
| Bobbed in procession up the crazy paved front walk | D |
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| Embraced by the arms of Mr Poppik the seltzer man | E |
| And Corydon his black skinned helper tendering your thighs | A |
| Thick as a man up our steps We are not reptiles | A |
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| Even the male body bears nipples as if to remind us | A |
| We are designed for dependence and nutriment past | F |
| Into future O Europe they budged your case its ponderous | A |
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| Guts of iron and brass ten kinds of hardwood and felt | G |
| Up those heel pocked risers and treads splintering tinder | H |
| Angelic nurse of clamor yearner tinkler dominator | H |
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| O Elephant you were for me When the tuner Mr Otto Van Brunt | I |
| Pronounced you excellent despite the cracked sounding board we | J |
| Obeyed him and swabbed your ivories with hydrogen peroxide | K |
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| You blocked a doorway and filled most of the living room | L |
| The sofa and chairs dwindled to a ram and ewes cowering now | M |
| The colored neighbors could be positive we were crazy and rich | N |
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| As we thought the people were who gave you away for the moving | O |
| Out of their carriage house they had painted you the color of pea soup | P |
| The drunk man my mother hired never finished antiquing you | Q |
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| Ivory and umber so you stood half done a throbbing mistreated noble | R |
| Genuine my mother's swollen livestock of love lost one unmastered | K |
| You were the beast she led to the shrine of my genius mistaken | S |
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| Endlessly I bonged according to my own chord system 'Humoresque ' | - |
| 'The Talk of the Town ' 'What'd I Say ' Then one day they painted you pink | T |
| Pink is how my sister remembers you the Saturday afternoon | U |
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| When our mother fell on her head dusty pink as I turn on the bench | V |
| In my sister's memory to see our mother carried moaning up the last | K |
| Steps and into the living room inaugurating the reign of our confusion | S |
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| They sued the builder of the house she fell in with the settlement | K |
| They bought a house at last and one day when I came home from college | W |
| You were gone mahogany breast who nursed me through those | A |
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| Years of the Concussion and there was a crappy little Baldwin Acrosonic | T |
| In your place gleaming walnut shell You sere gone despoiled one | S |
| Pink one forever green one white and gold one comforter living soul | X |
Robert Pinsky
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