A Life Of Crime Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GGHIJK BLMNOP BNQNRS| Frail friends I love you all | A |
| Maybe that's the trouble | B |
| storm in the eye of a storm | C |
| Everyone wants too much | D |
| Instead we gratefully accept | E |
| some stylized despair | F |
| - | |
| suitcoats left hanging | G |
| on folding chairs snow falling | G |
| inside a phonebooth cows | H |
| scouring some sad pasture | I |
| You know the sort of landscape | J |
| all sensibility and no trees | K |
| - | |
| Nothing but space a little | B |
| distance between friends | L |
| As if loneliness didn't make us | M |
| responsible and want accomplices | N |
| Better to drink at home | O |
| than to fall down in bars | P |
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| Or to read all night a novel | B |
| with missing heirs pages | N |
| in ten point type and lay my body | Q |
| down a snarl of urges | N |
| orbited by blood | R |
| dreaming of others | S |
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