Sackcloth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGCHIJCKALMNOPQ RSF| I made sackcloth my garment once by cutting | A |
| arm and neck holes into a burlap bag | B |
| A croker sack they called it Sackdragger | C |
| they called the man who dragged a croker sack | D |
| between the cotton rows to pick He dragged | E |
| a gunnysack behind him in the ditch | F |
| collecting empties Him they chose | G |
| the Likeliest to Sack Seed in the feed store | C |
| or to suck seed He was your daddy He sacked | H |
| groceries part time and they jeered | I |
| you sorry sack of shit Sackcloth | J |
| which Job sewed upon his skin was goat hair | C |
| God who clothed the heavens with such blackness | K |
| said I make sackcloth their covering | A |
| Isaiah understood God had him speak a word | L |
| in season to the weary Speak Isaiah now to me | M |
| Before the stars like green figs in a windstorm | N |
| drop the sun is black as sackcloth and the moon | O |
| becomes as blood My soul is weary Speak | P |
| Isaiah Sing I was a scholar as a boy | Q |
| I cut the neck and arm holes into the burlap | R |
| pulled it on and cinched it with a hank of rope | S |
| what I have done from then till now is itch | F |
Brooks Haxton
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