Turning Fifty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKG LMNO PBQR HSTH UBVK| Having known war and peace | A |
| and loss and finding | B |
| I drink my coffee and wait | C |
| for the sun to rise | D |
| - | |
| With kitchen swept cat fed | E |
| the day will quiet | F |
| I taste my fifty years | G |
| here in the cup | H |
| - | |
| Outside the green birds come | I |
| for bread and water | J |
| Their wings wait for the sun | K |
| to show their colours | G |
| - | |
| I'll show my colours too | L |
| Though we've polluted | M |
| even this air I breathe | N |
| And spoiled green earth | O |
| - | |
| though granted life or death | P |
| death's what we're chosing | B |
| and though these years we live | Q |
| scar flesh and mind | R |
| - | |
| still as the sun comes up | H |
| bearing my birthday | S |
| having met time and love | T |
| I raise my cup | H |
| - | |
| dark bitter neutral clean | U |
| sober as the morning | B |
| to all I've seen and known | V |
| to this new sun | K |
Judith Wright
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