Statement With Rhymes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGHGIJKLGGK MNOOMPlurality is all I walk among the restaurants | A |
the theatres the grocery stores I ride the cars | B |
and hear of Mrs Bedford s teeth and Albuquerque | C |
strikes unsettled someone s simply marvelous date | D |
news of the German Jews the baseball scores | E |
storetalk and whoretalk talk of wars I turn | F |
the pages of a thousand books to read | G |
the names of Buddha Malthus Walker Evans Stendhal Andr Gide | G |
Ouspenski note the terms obscurantism | H |
factorize fagaceous endocarp descend | G |
the nervous stairs to hear the broken ends | I |
of songs that float through city air | J |
In Osnabr ck and Ogden on the Passamaquoddy Bay | K |
in Ahmednagar Waco Neb in Santa F | L |
propelled by zeros zinc and zephyrs always I m pursued | G |
by thoughts of what I am authority remembrance food | G |
the letter on the mezzanine the unemployed dogs lonely faces pianos and decay | K |
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Plurality is all I sympathize but cannot grieve | M |
too long for those who wear their dialectics on their sleeves | N |
The pattern s one I sometimes rather like there s really nothing wrong | O |
with it for some But I should add It doesn t wear for long | O |
before I push the elevator bell and quickly leave | M |
Weldon Kees
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