Notes To My Nieces (or, Essays In Fortune-telling ) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDE FGHAIJKL IMNO PNCQ BRSTUVWwhen i was younger trees | A |
were green money was green money | B |
grew on trees or trees grew up | C |
and became money now money is clearly | B |
plastic spreads like cancer getting it | D |
is genetic | E |
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trust me on this g o d stands | F |
for good old days and if you have enough | G |
faith you can remember them almost | H |
like you were there on your knees | A |
with us scrubbing them clean or | I |
praying for the millennium that next life | J |
when the g o d would be n e w not | K |
especially white | L |
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question your | I |
mother is black and your father is loving | M |
answer what's loving got to do | N |
with virginia | O |
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i fear | P |
that your cows ain't like mine that you | N |
won't understand why i gave up | C |
red meat | Q |
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say the past is a muddy | B |
river say the future is a belated alphabet | R |
with which you and i might spell | S |
different things say the present | T |
is something we can pass back and forth | U |
between us like an acorn like | V |
loose change | W |
Evie Shockley
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