The Bean Eaters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA BCDC EDFDD| They eat beans mostly this old yellow pair | A |
| Dinner is a casual affair | A |
| Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood | B |
| Tin flatware | A |
| - | |
| Two who are Mostly Good | B |
| Two who have lived their day | C |
| But keep on putting on their clothes | D |
| And putting things away | C |
| - | |
| And remembering | E |
| Remembering with twinklings and twinges | D |
| As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that | F |
| is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths | D |
| tobacco crumbs vases and fringes | D |
Gwendolyn Brooks
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