The Night Game Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBE FGHI IJKLBI MN OPEQRE IST UEV WXYRZA2 RRB2R C2D2E2R URXU F2RG2U H2URUG2I2J2 RRK2URUL2M2U

Some of us believeA
We would have conceived romanticB
Love out of our own passionsC
With no precedentsD
Without songs and poetryE
Or have invented poetry and musicB
As a comb of cells for the honeyE
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Shaped by ignoranceF
A succession of new worldsG
Congruities improvised byH
Immigrants or childrenI
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I once thought most people were ItalianI
Jewish or ColoredJ
To be white and calledK
Something like Ed FordL
Seemed aristocraticB
A rare distinctionI
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Possibly I believed only gentilesM
And blonds could be left handedN
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Already famousO
After one year in the majorsP
Whitey Ford was drafted by the ArmyE
To play ball in the flannelsQ
Of the Signal Corps stationedR
In Long Branch New JerseyE
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A night game the silver potionI
Of the lights his pink skinS
Shining like a burnT
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Never a playerU
I liked or hated a YankeeE
A mere successV
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But white the chalked off linesW
In the grass white and greenX
The immaculate uniformY
And white the unpigmentedR
Halo of his hairZ
When he shifted his capA2
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So ordinary and distinctR
So close up that I feltR
As if I could have made him upB2
Imagined him as I imaginedR
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The ball a scintillaC2
High in the black backdropD2
Of the sky Tight red stitchesE2
Rawlings The bleachedR
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Horsehide white the colorU
Of nothing Color of the pastR
And of the future of the movie screenX
At rest and of blank paperU
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I could have The mind The blackF2
Backdrop the whiteR
Fly picked out by the toweringG2
Lights A few years laterU
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On a blanket in the grassH2
By the same riverU
A girl and I came intoR
Being togetherU
To the faint mutteringG2
Of unthinkableI2
Troubadours and radiosJ2
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The emeraldR
Theater the nightR
Another timeK2
I devised a left handerU
Even more giftedR
Than Whitey Ford A DodgerU
People were amazed by himL2
Once when he was youngM2
He refused to pitch on Yom KippurU

Robert Pinsky



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