Relating To Robinson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFGH IJDKLMNOL PQRSTU VWQPXQYZCLA2KEB2 C2D2| Somewhere in Chelsea early summer | A |
| And walking in the twilight toward the docks | B |
| I thought I made out Robinson ahead of me | C |
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| From an uncurtained second story room a radio | D |
| Was playing There s a Small Hotel a kite | E |
| Twisted above dark rooftops and slow drifting birds | F |
| We were alone there he and I | G |
| Inhabiting the empty street | H |
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| Under a sign for Natural Bloom Cigars | I |
| While lights clicked softly in the dusk from red to green | J |
| He stopped and gazed into a window | D |
| Where a plaster Venus modeling a truss | K |
| Looked out at Eastbound traffic But Robinson | L |
| I knew was out of town he summers at a place in Maine | M |
| Sometimes on Fire Island sometimes the Cape | N |
| Leaves town in June and comes back after Labor Day | O |
| And yet I almost called out Robinson | L |
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| There was no chance Just as I passed | P |
| Turning my head to search his face | Q |
| His own head turned with mine | R |
| And fixed me with dilated terrifying eyes | S |
| That stopped my blood His voice | T |
| Came at me like an echo in the dark | U |
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| I thought I saw the whirlpool opening | V |
| Kicked all night at a bolted door | W |
| You must have followed me from Astor Place | Q |
| An empty paper floats down at the last | P |
| And then a day as huge as yesterday in pairs | X |
| Unrolled its horror on my face | Q |
| Until it blocked Running in sweat | Y |
| To reach the docks I turned back | Z |
| For a second glance I had no certainty | C |
| There in the dark that it was Robinson | L |
| Or someone else | A2 |
| The block was bare The Venus | K |
| Bathed in blue fluorescent light | E |
| Stared toward the river As I hurried West | B2 |
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| The lights across the bay were coming on | C2 |
| The boats moved silently and the low whistles blew | D2 |
Weldon Kees
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