Enthusiasm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IEJK EEBE ELME KEKN OPEE| quot Don't overdo it quot Dad yelled watching me | A |
| Play shortstop collect stamps and shells | B |
| Roll on the grass laughing until I peed my pants | C |
| quot Screw him quot I said and grabbed every cowry | D |
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| I could find hogged all the books I could | E |
| From Heights Library wore out the baseball | F |
| Diamond dawn to dusk and parents in Duluth | G |
| Gorged on bountiful Candy dusk to dawn | H |
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| Not until a Committee wrote of my poems | I |
| quot Enthusiasm should be tempered quot | E |
| Did I change my song I write now | J |
| The way I live calm and sober steering | K |
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| Toward the Golden Mean The Committee | E |
| Was right to withhold funds I'd have bought | E |
| A hundred box turtles with lemon speckled shells | B |
| Flyfished for rainbows six months straight | E |
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| Flown to the Great Barrier Reef and dived | E |
| Non stop among pink coral and marble cones | L |
| Living on chocolate malts peaches and barbecue | M |
| I'd have turned into a ski bum married | E |
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| Ten women in ten states written nothing | K |
| Poetry would glance at twice instead | E |
| Of rising at as I do now writing | K |
| 'Til noon about matters serious and deep | N |
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| Teaching 'til eating a low fat meal | O |
| High in fiber and cruciferous vegetables | P |
| Then bed by alarm clock set | E |
| Five minutes late my one indulgence of the day | E |
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