The Happiest Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJIKLMNFOPFH QRSTUKHVWFXYUF| It was early May I think | A |
| a moment of lilac or dogwood | B |
| when so many promises are made | C |
| it hardly matters if a few are broken | D |
| My mother and father still hovered | E |
| in the background part of the scenery | F |
| like the houses I had grown up in | G |
| and if they would be torn down later | H |
| that was something I knew | I |
| but didn't believe Our children were asleep | J |
| or playing the youngest as new | I |
| as the new smell of the lilacs | K |
| and how could I have guessed | L |
| their roots were shallow | M |
| and would be easily transplanted | N |
| I didn't even guess that I was happy | F |
| The small irritations that are like salt | O |
| on melon were what I dwelt on | P |
| though in truth they simply | F |
| made the fruit taste sweeter | H |
| So we sat on the porch | Q |
| in the cool morning sipping | R |
| hot coffee Behind the news of the day | S |
| strikes and small wars a fire somewhere | T |
| I could see the top of your dark head | U |
| and thought not of public conflagrations | K |
| but of how it would feel on my bare shoulder | H |
| If someone could stop the camera then | V |
| if someone could only stop the camera | W |
| and ask me are you happy | F |
| perhaps I would have noticed | X |
| how the morning shone in the reflected | Y |
| color of lilac Yes I might have said | U |
| and offered a steaming cup of coffee | F |
Linda Pastan
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