The Summer I Was Sixteen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH HCHH CCFC HICH| The turquoise pool rose up to meet us | A |
| its slide a silver afterthought down which | B |
| we plunged screaming into a mirage of bubbles | C |
| We did not exist beyond the gaze of a boy | D |
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| Shaking water off our limbs we lifted | E |
| up from ladder rungs across the fern cool | F |
| lip of rim Afternoon Oiled and sated | G |
| we sunbathed rose and paraded the concrete | H |
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| danced to the low beat of quot Duke of Earl quot | H |
| Past cherry colas hot dogs Dreamsicles | C |
| we came to the counter where bees staggered | H |
| into root beer cups and drowned We gobbled | H |
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| cotton candy torches sweet as furtive kisses | C |
| shared on benches beneath summer shadows | C |
| Cherry Elm Sycamore We spread our chenille | F |
| blankets across grass pressed radios to our ears | C |
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| mouthing the old words then loosened | H |
| thin bikini straps and rubbed baby oil with iodine | I |
| across sunburned shoulders tossing a glance | C |
| through the chain link at an improbable world | H |
Geraldine Connolly
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