Squatter's Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFF CGHIJKLL MNONDDPP QLRLLLSS| On the unbreathing sides of hills | A |
| they play a specklike girl and boy | B |
| alone but near a specklike house | C |
| The Sun's suspended eye | D |
| blinks casually and then they wade | E |
| gigantic waves of light and shade | E |
| A dancing yellow spot a pup | F |
| attends them Clouds are piling up | F |
| - | |
| a storm piles up behind the house | C |
| The children play at digging holes | G |
| The ground is hard they try to use | H |
| one of their father's tools | I |
| a mattock with a broken haft | J |
| the two of them can scarcely lift | K |
| It drops and clangs Their laughter spreads | L |
| effulgence in the thunderheads | L |
| - | |
| Weak flashes of inquiry | M |
| direct as is the puppy's bark | N |
| But to their little soluble | O |
| unwarrantable ark | N |
| apparently the rain's reply | D |
| consists of echolalia | D |
| and Mother's voice ugly as sin | P |
| keeps calling to them to come in | P |
| - | |
| Children the threshold of the storm | Q |
| has slid beneath your muddy shoes | L |
| wet and beguiled you stand among | R |
| the mansions you may choose | L |
| out of a bigger house than yours | L |
| whose lawfulness endures | L |
| It's soggy documents retain | S |
| your rights in rooms of falling rain | S |
Elizabeth Bishop
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