Gas Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFGHAIJKLMNEO PEFQRC SPS CD AEG TUVWDXYDDZUZ| my grandmother had a serious gas | A |
| problem | B |
| we only saw her on Sunday | C |
| she'd sit down to dinner | D |
| and she'd have gas | A |
| she was very heavy | E |
| years old | F |
| wore this large glass brooch | G |
| that's what you noticed most | H |
| in addition to the gas | A |
| she'd let it go just as food was being served | I |
| she'd let it go in bursts | J |
| spaced about a minute apart | K |
| she'd let it go | L |
| or times | M |
| as we reached for the potatoes | N |
| poured the gravy | E |
| cut into the meat | O |
| - | |
| nobody ever said anything | P |
| especially me | E |
| I was years old | F |
| only my grandmother spoke | Q |
| after or blasts | R |
| she would say in an offhand way | C |
| 'I'll bury you all ' | - |
| - | |
| I didn't much like that | S |
| first farting | P |
| then saying that | S |
| - | |
| it happened every Sunday | C |
| she was my father's mother | D |
| - | |
| every Sunday it was death and gas | A |
| and mashed potatoes and gravy | E |
| and that big glass brooch | G |
| - | |
| those Sunday dinners would | T |
| always end with apple pie and | U |
| ice cream | V |
| and a big argument | W |
| about something or other | D |
| my grandmother finally running out the door | X |
| and taking the red train back to | Y |
| Pasadena | D |
| the place stinking for an hour | D |
| and my father walking about | Z |
| fanning a newspaper in the air and | U |
| saying 'it's all that damned sauerkraut | Z |
| she eats ' | - |
Charles Bukowski
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