Where You Are Planted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BA CA DA DA EA| He's as high as a georgia pine my father'd say half laughing southern trees | A |
| as measure metaphor highways lined with kudzu covered southern trees | A |
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| fuchsia lavender white light pink purple crape myrtle bouquets burst | B |
| open on sturdy branches of skin smooth bark my favorite southern trees | A |
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| one hundred degrees in the shade we settle into still pools of humidity moss | C |
| dark beneath live oaks southern heat makes us grateful for southern trees | A |
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| the maples in our front yard flew in spring on helicopter wings in fall we | D |
| splashed in colored leaves but never sought sap from these southern trees | A |
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| frankly my dear that's a magnolia i tell her fingering the deep green nearly | D |
| plastic leaves amazed how little a northern girl knows about southern trees | A |
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| i've never forgotten the charred bitter fruit of holiday's poplars nor will i | E |
| it's part of what makes me evie i grew up in the shadow of southern trees | A |
Evie Shockley
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