The Death Of Santa Claus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHI JKL MNO HPH QPP PRS THU PVP| He's had the chest pains for weeks | A |
| but doctors don't make house | B |
| calls to the North Pole | C |
| - | |
| he's let his Blue Cross lapse | D |
| blood tests make him faint | E |
| hospital gown always flap | F |
| - | |
| open waiting rooms upset | G |
| his stomach and it's only | H |
| indigestion anyway he thinks | I |
| - | |
| until feeding the reindeer | J |
| he feels as if a monster fist | K |
| has grabbed his heart and won't | L |
| - | |
| stop squeezing He can't | M |
| breathe and the beautiful white | N |
| world he loves goes black | O |
| - | |
| and he drops on his jelly belly | H |
| in the snow and Mrs Claus | P |
| tears out of the toy factory | H |
| - | |
| wailing and the elves wring | Q |
| their little hands and Rudolph's | P |
| nose blinks like a sad ambulance | P |
| - | |
| light and in a tract house | P |
| in Houston Texas I'm | R |
| telling my mom that stupid | S |
| - | |
| kids at school say Santa's a big | T |
| fake and she sits with me | H |
| on our purple flowered couch | U |
| - | |
| and takes my hand tears | P |
| in her throat the terrible | V |
| news rising in her eyes | P |
Charles Harper Webb
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