To A Friend Concerning Several Ladies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG BHIJKLMNOPQNCRSPTNU VWXQYZIA2B2C2D2CE2F2 PG2HH2I2G2J2I K2L2J2IM2G2| You know there is not much | A |
| that I desire a few chrysanthemums | B |
| half lying on the grass yellow | C |
| and brown and white the | D |
| talk of a few people the trees | E |
| an expanse of dried leaves perhaps | F |
| with ditches among them | G |
| - | |
| But there comes | B |
| between me and these things | H |
| a letter | I |
| or even a look well placed | J |
| you understand | K |
| so that I am confused twisted | L |
| four ways and left flat | M |
| unable to lift the food to | N |
| my own mouth | O |
| Here is what they say Come | P |
| and come and come And if | Q |
| I do not go I remain stale to | N |
| myself and if I go | C |
| I have watched | R |
| the city from a distance at night | S |
| and wondered why I wrote no poem | P |
| Come yes | T |
| the city is ablaze for you | N |
| and you stand and look at it | U |
| - | |
| And they are right There is | V |
| no good in the world except out of | W |
| a woman and certain women alone | X |
| for certain But what if | Q |
| I arrive like a turtle | Y |
| with my house on my back or | Z |
| a fish ogling from under water | I |
| It will not do I must be | A2 |
| steaming with love colored | B2 |
| like a flamingo For what | C2 |
| To have legs and a silly head | D2 |
| and to smell pah like a flamingo | C |
| that soils its own feathers behind | E2 |
| Must I go home filled | F2 |
| with a bad poem | P |
| And they say | G2 |
| Who can answer these things | H |
| till he has tried Your eyes | H2 |
| are half closed you are a child | I2 |
| oh a sweet one ready to play | G2 |
| but I will make a man of you and | J2 |
| with love on his shoulder | I |
| - | |
| And in the marshes | K2 |
| the crickets run | L2 |
| on the sunny dike's top and | J2 |
| make burrows there the water | I |
| reflects the reeds and the reeds | M2 |
| move on their stalks and rattle drily | G2 |
William Carlos Williams
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