Thinking For Berky Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEFG HBIJ KLMK LNOL| In the late night listening from bed | A |
| I have joined the ambulance or the patrol | B |
| screaming toward some drama the kind of end | C |
| that Berky must have some day if she isn't dead | A |
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| The wildest of all her father and mother cruel | D |
| farming out there beyond the old stone quarry | E |
| where highschool lovers parked their lurching cars | F |
| Berky learned to love in that dark school | G |
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| Early her face was turned away from home | H |
| toward any hardworking place but still her soul | B |
| with terrible things to do was alive looking out | I |
| for the rescue that surely some day would have to come | J |
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| Windiest nights Berky I have thought for you | K |
| and no matter how lucky I've been I've touched wood | L |
| There are things not solved in our town though tomorrow came | M |
| there are things time passing can never make come true | K |
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| We live in an occupied country misunderstood | L |
| justice will take us millions of intricate moves | N |
| Sirens wil hunt down Berky you survivors in your beds | O |
| listening through the night so far and good | L |
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