Where Is It Clean Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EF GH IJ KL MN AL OP QR LS TU VW XY PP ZA2 B2C2 WD2 E2F2 G2H2| when your mother can rise from her place | A |
| on the pew during the early service | B |
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| early enough that the sun barely fills the sky | C |
| with its weak straw but row after row | D |
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| in the auditorium is flush with folks who want | E |
| to be home before the football game gets underway | F |
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| or hate the slower pace the later service takes | G |
| but still got to get their god on | H |
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| before starting a new week when she can rise | I |
| and tip down the aisle three inch heels | J |
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| pointing a warning at hell through the plush | K |
| mauve carpet smile and nod at preacher | L |
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| who is sitting on the pulpit's little throne | M |
| with his bible beneath his palm a man thick chested | N |
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| and stout bellied with moral authority whose face | A |
| gleams with crushing benevolent power | L |
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| when she can give him a pleasant nod | O |
| and circle around behind the microphone standing | P |
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| like a thin silver trophy between the heavenly | Q |
| floral arrangements give a firm tug | R |
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| to the hem of her suit jacket and lean over | L |
| the dimpled nob the ribbons encircling the crown | S |
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| of her broad brimmed hat quivering with each | T |
| breath the crisp white paper in her hands | U |
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| held out at arm's length from her customary squint | V |
| her eyes scooting back and forth | W |
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| between this document and the village of worshipers | X |
| fanning themselves and waiting on her voice | Y |
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| when she can stand there and coo good morning | P |
| praise the lord and introduce her reading | P |
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| as a poem by my daughter a quick look | Z |
| at your beaming father then take your words | A2 |
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| between her lightly pinked lips and raise each one | B2 |
| to the light before god and these witnesses | C2 |
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| enunciating like she learned to recite from the fourth | W |
| grade primer in her schoolhouse's single room | D2 |
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| sending sound through the vowels | E2 |
| like a bell when she can do this can rise and walk | F2 |
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| and smile and read and have the church say amen | G2 |
| then you can safely declare it is clean | H2 |
Evie Shockley
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