The Exam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EF GH IJ KG LM| It is mid October The trees are in | A |
| their autumnal glory red yellow green | B |
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| orange outside the classroom where students | C |
| take the mid term sniffling softly as if | D |
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| identifying lines from Blake or Keats | E |
| was such sweet sorrow summoned up in words | F |
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| they never saw before I am thinking | G |
| of my parents of the six decades they've | H |
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| been together of the thirty thousand | I |
| meals they've eaten in the kitchen of the | J |
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| more than twenty thousand nights they've slept | K |
| under the same roof I am wondering | G |
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| who could have fashioned the test that would have | L |
| predicted this success Who could have known | M |
Joyce Sutphen
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