The Blues Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHI JBG DKL MNO MPM QRS TSU VWX J| What did I think a storm clutching a clarinet | A |
| and boarding a downtown bus headed for lessons | B |
| I had pieces to learn by heart but at twelve | C |
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| you think the heart and memory are different | D |
| quot 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works | E |
| backwards ' the Queen remarked quot Alice in Wonderland | F |
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| Although I knew the way music can fill a room | G |
| even with loneliness which is of course a kind | H |
| of company I could swelter through an August | I |
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| afternoon torpor rising from the river and listen | J |
| to Stan Getz and J J Johnson braid variations | B |
| on quot My Funny Valentine quot and feel there in the room | G |
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| with me the force and weight of what I couldn't | D |
| say What's an emotion anyhow | K |
| Lassitude and sweat lay all about me | L |
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| like a stubble field it was so hot and listless | M |
| but I was quick and furtive as a fox | N |
| who has his thirty miles a day metabolism | O |
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| to burn off as ordinary business | M |
| I had about me after all the bare eloquence | P |
| of the becalmed the plain speech of the leafless | M |
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| tree I had the cunning of my body and a few | Q |
| bars they were enough of music Looking back | R |
| it almost seems as though I could remember | S |
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| but this can't be how could I bear it | T |
| the future toward which I'd clatter | S |
| with that boy tied like a bell around my throat | U |
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| a brave man and a coward both | V |
| to break and break my metronomic heart | W |
| and just enough to learn to love the blues | X |
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| Anonymous submission | J |
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