A Dry Summer Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BCDD ECCF AAAA GGHH IJKKIt was time of supper | A |
A treat for the summer | A |
One could afford no matter | A |
Should none be call'd a Father | A |
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The table was set | B |
Waiting for a dessert | C |
Definitely not for a buffet | D |
A simmering debted pocket | D |
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If things must fall apart | E |
My device produced no alert | C |
Seemingly for a business desert | C |
My family is a school of coy experts | F |
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Mother dear lovely mother | A |
Why 've you forgotten to bother | A |
You have kept us all thus far together | A |
Month by month you loved us one another | A |
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Have we inflicted on you | G |
To do our day and week due | G |
Alas we have children so shrewd | H |
Wayward complying the work with feud | H |
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Although our hands are dry | I |
Our tongues to a supper stiff and tied | J |
Our ears a warning can reason | K |
Our conscience can abide no treason | K |
Hiam Terhile
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 10/04/2021
Poet's note: This poem is a kind of subtle protest about Daly in payment of salaries of workers, written in the tone of a letter to a boss. The frustration that comes with depending on salary as the only source of income is mirrored here.
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