A Summer Summary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE FFA GGDD DDH DDEE AAD AAEE| Shall I lying in a grot | A |
| Die because the day is hot | A |
| Or declare I can't endure | B |
| Such a torrid temperature | C |
| Be it hotter than the flames | D |
| South Gehenna Junction claims | D |
| If it be not so to me | E |
| What care I how hot it be | E |
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| Shall I say I love the town | F |
| Praised by Robinson and Browne | F |
| Shall I say 'In summer heat | A |
| Old Manhattan can't be beat ' | - |
| Be it luring as a bar | G |
| Or my neighbour's motor car | G |
| If I think it is pazziz | D |
| What care I how fine it is | D |
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| Shall I prate of rural joys | D |
| Far from civic smoke and noise | D |
| Shall I like the others drool | H |
| 'But the nights are always cool ' | - |
| If I hate to rise at six | D |
| Shall I praise the suburbs Nix | D |
| If the country's not for me | E |
| What care I how good it be | E |
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| Town or country cool or hot | A |
| Differs nothing matters not | A |
| For to quote that Roman cuss | D |
| Why dispute 'de gustibus ' | - |
| If to this or that one should | A |
| Take a fancy it is good | A |
| If these rhymes look good to me | E |
| What care I how bad they be | E |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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