Foul Shots: A Clinic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDAEAAAFA GHEIAJE KALMANKAOPDQRKJ| for Paul Levitt Be perpendicular to the basket | A |
| toes avid for the line | B |
| - | |
| Already this description | C |
| is perilously abstract the ball | D |
| and basket are round the nailhead | A |
| centered in the centerplank | E |
| of the foul circle is round | A |
| and though the rumpled body | A |
| isn't round it isn't | A |
| perpendicular You have to draw | F |
| 'an imaginary line ' as the breezy | A |
| - | |
| coaches say 'through your shoulders ' | - |
| Here's how to cheat remember | G |
| your collarbone Now the instructions | H |
| grow spiritual deep breathing | E |
| relax and concentrate both aim | I |
| for the front of the rim but miss it | A |
| deliberately so the ball goes in | J |
| Ignore this part of the clinic | E |
| - | |
| and shoot foul shots | K |
| every day Teach yourself not to be | A |
| bored by any boring one of them | L |
| You have to love to do this and chances | M |
| are you don't you'd love to be good | A |
| at it but not by a love that drives | N |
| you to shoot foul shots | K |
| every day and the lovingly unlaunched | A |
| foul shots we're talking about now | O |
| the clinic having served to bring us | P |
| together circle eccentrically | D |
| in a sky of stolid orbits | Q |
| as unlike as you and I are | R |
| from the arcs those foul shots | K |
| leave behind when they go in | J |
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