Feeding The Sun Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIBBEJFKLMNOP QBRFFSTUVEW| One day we notice that the sun | A |
| needs feeding Immediately | B |
| a crash program begins we fill rockets | C |
| with wheat smoke rings razorblades then | D |
| after long aiming | E |
| they're off Hulls specially alloyed | F |
| so as not to melt before the stuff | G |
| gets delivered we pour cattle rivers windmills | H |
| aborigines etcet into the sun which | I |
| however grows stubbornly | B |
| smaller paler Finally | B |
| of course we run out of things to feed the thing | E |
| start shipping ourselves By now | J |
| all the planets moons asteroids and | F |
| so on have been shoveled in though they're | K |
| not doing much good it's | L |
| still looking pretty weak heck nothing helps | M |
| Now the last few of us left lift off | N |
| The trip seems forever but then touchdown | O |
| Just before entering we wonder | P |
| will we be enough There's | Q |
| a last second doubt in our minds can we | B |
| can this final sacrifice our broughten crumb | R |
| satiate | F |
| it will a glutteral belch burst out then at last | F |
| and will that Big Burp be seen by far off telescopes | S |
| interpreted as a nova | T |
| by those other galaxies | U |
| those further stars which have always seemed even more | V |
| starving | E |
| than ours | W |
Bill Knott
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