Broughtonia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEF GHIJ KLFM NOBP QARS| in memory of F C | A |
| who died of AIDS complications | B |
| - | |
| But there under the dark eaves | C |
| of rain forest we found Broughtonia | D |
| its crimson petals aflame | E |
| its yellow throat veins hinting purple | F |
| - | |
| rising to a sanguine corolla surrounded | G |
| by sepals as crinkled as mourning crepe | H |
| We followed a path lengthened slash by slash | I |
| the islanders swinging machetes in front of us | J |
| - | |
| We were told how Broughton's hands trembled | K |
| when he sighted those orchids languishing | L |
| as he sketched his nervous pencil | F |
| exaggerated the crumpled edge of every bloom | M |
| - | |
| We too had learned to exaggerate | N |
| That night in Montego Bay | O |
| we told the others we had seen dozens | B |
| in New York we said hundreds | P |
| - | |
| Today we might have imagined the wind | Q |
| licking us back into the Gully | A |
| our hands as uninhibited as those petals | R |
| No I can no longer imagine I choose not to | S |
C. Dale Young
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