Mingus At The Showplace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CC DE FG HI BC CC HC JK KC CL M| I was miserable of course for I was seventeen | A |
| and so I swung into action and wrote a poem | B |
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| and it was miserable for that was how I thought | C |
| poetry worked you digested experience shat | C |
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| literature It was at The Showplace long since | D |
| defunct on West th st and I sat at the bar | E |
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| casting beer money from a reel of ones | F |
| the kid in the city big ears like a puppy | G |
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| And I knew Mingus was a genius I knew two | H |
| other things but as it happens they were wrong | I |
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| So I made him look at this poem | B |
| quot There's a lot of that going around quot he said | C |
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| and Sweet Baby Jesus he was right He glowered | C |
| at me but didn't look as if he thought | C |
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| bad poems were dangerous the way some poets do | H |
| If they were baseball executives they'd plot | C |
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| to destroy sandlots everywhere so that the game | J |
| could be saved from children Of course later | K |
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| that night he fired his pianist in mid number | K |
| and flurried him from the stand | C |
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| quot We've suffered a diminuendo in personnel quot | C |
| he explained and the band played on | L |
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| Anonymous submission | M |
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