Request To A Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH BIJ KLGL EMNM OO| If the year is meditating a suitable gift | A |
| I should like it to be the attitude | B |
| of my great great grandmother | C |
| legendary devotee of the arts | D |
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| who having eight children | E |
| and little opportunity for painting pictures | F |
| sat one day on a high rock | G |
| beside a river in Switzerland | H |
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| and from a difficult distance viewed | B |
| her second son balanced on a small ice flow drift down the current toward a waterfall | I |
| that struck rock bottom eighty feet below | J |
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| while her second daughter impeded | K |
| no doubt by the petticoats of the day | L |
| stretched out a last hope alpenstock | G |
| which luckily later caught him on his way | L |
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| Nothing it was evident could be done | E |
| And with the artist's isolating eye | M |
| My great great grandmother hastily sketched the scene | N |
| The sketch survives to prove the story by | M |
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| Year if you have no Mother's day present planned | O |
| Reach back and bring me the firmness of her hand | O |
Judith Wright
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