The Poem You Asked For Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEE BFB EED GHI DJK LAE MEB DNO EEP AQ| My poem would eat nothing | A |
| I tried giving it water | B |
| but it said no | C |
| - | |
| worrying me | D |
| Day after day | E |
| I held it up to the llight | E |
| - | |
| turning it over | B |
| but it only pressed its lips | F |
| more tightly together | B |
| - | |
| It grew sullen like a toad | E |
| through with being teased | E |
| I offered it money | D |
| - | |
| my clothes my car with a full tank | G |
| But the poem stared at the floor | H |
| Finally I cupped it in | I |
| - | |
| my hands and carried it gently | D |
| out into the soft air into the | J |
| evening traffic wondering how | K |
| - | |
| to end things between us | L |
| For now it had begun breathing | A |
| putting on more and | E |
| - | |
| more hard rings of flesh | M |
| And the poem demanded the food | E |
| it drank up all the water | B |
| - | |
| beat me and took my money | D |
| tore the faded clothes | N |
| off my back | O |
| - | |
| said Shit | E |
| and walked slowly away | E |
| slicking its hair down | P |
| - | |
| Said it was going | A |
| over to your place | Q |
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