Happy As The Day Is Long Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMKKNKOPQ RKSKTURKVWX| y's big news they found Amelia Earhart's shoe size | A |
| Charlie Christian is bebopping at Minton's in | B |
| Today the Presidential primaries have failed us once again | C |
| We'll look for our excitement elsewhere in the last snow | D |
| that is falling in tomorrow's Gospel Concert in Springfield | E |
| It's a good day to be a cat and just sleep | F |
| Or to read the Confessions of Saint Augustine | G |
| Jesus called the sons of Zebedee the Sons of Thunder | H |
| In my secret room plans are hatched we'll explore the Smoky Mountains | I |
| Then we'll walk along a beach Hallelujah | J |
| A letter was just delivered by Overnight Express | K |
| it contained nothing of importance I slept through it | L |
| I guess I'm trying to be 'above the fray ' | M |
| The Russians I know have developed a language called 'Lincos' | K |
| designed for communicating with the inhabitants of other worlds | K |
| That's been a waste of time not even a postcard | N |
| But then again there are tree climbing fish called anabases | K |
| They climb the trees out of stupidity or so it is said | O |
| Who am I to judge I want to break out of here | P |
| A bee is not strong in geometry it cannot tell | Q |
| a square from a triangle or a circle | R |
| The locker room of my skull is full of panting egrets | K |
| I'm saying that strictly for effect | S |
| In time I will heal I know this or I believe this | K |
| The contents and furnishings of my secret room will be labeled | T |
| and organized so thoroughly it will be a little frightening | U |
| What I thought was infinite will turn out to be just a couple | R |
| of odds and ends a tiny miscellany miniature stuff fragments | K |
| of novelties of no great moment But it will also be enough | V |
| maybe even more than enough to suggest an immense ritual and tradition | W |
| And this makes me very happy | X |
Edward Taylor
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