The Night Game Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBE FGHI IJKLBI MN OPEQRE IST UEV WXYRZA2 RRB2R C2D2E2R URXU F2RG2U H2URUG2I2J2 RRK2URUL2M2USome of us believe | A |
We would have conceived romantic | B |
Love out of our own passions | C |
With no precedents | D |
Without songs and poetry | E |
Or have invented poetry and music | B |
As a comb of cells for the honey | E |
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Shaped by ignorance | F |
A succession of new worlds | G |
Congruities improvised by | H |
Immigrants or children | I |
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I once thought most people were Italian | I |
Jewish or Colored | J |
To be white and called | K |
Something like Ed Ford | L |
Seemed aristocratic | B |
A rare distinction | I |
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Possibly I believed only gentiles | M |
And blonds could be left handed | N |
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Already famous | O |
After one year in the majors | P |
Whitey Ford was drafted by the Army | E |
To play ball in the flannels | Q |
Of the Signal Corps stationed | R |
In Long Branch New Jersey | E |
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A night game the silver potion | I |
Of the lights his pink skin | S |
Shining like a burn | T |
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Never a player | U |
I liked or hated a Yankee | E |
A mere success | V |
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But white the chalked off lines | W |
In the grass white and green | X |
The immaculate uniform | Y |
And white the unpigmented | R |
Halo of his hair | Z |
When he shifted his cap | A2 |
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So ordinary and distinct | R |
So close up that I felt | R |
As if I could have made him up | B2 |
Imagined him as I imagined | R |
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The ball a scintilla | C2 |
High in the black backdrop | D2 |
Of the sky Tight red stitches | E2 |
Rawlings The bleached | R |
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Horsehide white the color | U |
Of nothing Color of the past | R |
And of the future of the movie screen | X |
At rest and of blank paper | U |
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I could have The mind The black | F2 |
Backdrop the white | R |
Fly picked out by the towering | G2 |
Lights A few years later | U |
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On a blanket in the grass | H2 |
By the same river | U |
A girl and I came into | R |
Being together | U |
To the faint muttering | G2 |
Of unthinkable | I2 |
Troubadours and radios | J2 |
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The emerald | R |
Theater the night | R |
Another time | K2 |
I devised a left hander | U |
Even more gifted | R |
Than Whitey Ford A Dodger | U |
People were amazed by him | L2 |
Once when he was young | M2 |
He refused to pitch on Yom Kippur | U |
Robert Pinsky
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