Untitled Poem - I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHDIJKLMNOO| Once one of my students read a book we had | A |
| She was doing a history assignment on | B |
| the decline and fall of the Roman Empire | C |
| and crying When I asked her why | D |
| she said Because All those people died | E |
| I said that if you start to cry for the dead | F |
| You won t have much time for anything else | G |
| Besides after all the city people were killed | H |
| or died off because their cultures got too high | D |
| the barbarians kept some peasants alive | I |
| for their food value Some barbarian raped | J |
| some peasant woman who produced | K |
| a child who ultimately produced you | L |
| and me so there is this family continuity | M |
| so don t cry it s obvious look around | N |
| This is the reason why we Americans | O |
| are a nation of peasants and barbarians | O |
Alan Dugan
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