Widows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFGGHGI JKLM NOPH CGQ RSGG GTU| My mother's playing cards with my aunt | A |
| Spite and Malice the family pastime the game | B |
| my grandmother taught all her daughters | C |
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| Midsummer too hot to go out | D |
| Today my aunt's ahead she's getting the good cards | E |
| My mother's dragging having trouble with her concentration | F |
| She can't get used to her own bed this summer | G |
| She had no trouble last summer | G |
| getting used to the floor She learned to sleep there | H |
| to be near my father | G |
| He was dying he got a special bed | I |
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| My aunt doesn't give an inch doesn't make | J |
| allowance for my mother's weariness | K |
| It's how they were raised you show respect by fighting | L |
| To let up insults the opponent | M |
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| Each player has one pile to the left five cards in the hand | N |
| It's good to stay inside on days like this | O |
| to stay where it's cool | P |
| And this is better than other games better than solitaire | H |
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| My grandmother thought ahead she prepared her daughters | C |
| They have cards they have each other | G |
| They don't need any more companionship | Q |
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| All afternoon the game goes on but the sun doesn't move | R |
| It just keeps beating down turning the grass yellow | S |
| That's how it must seem to my mother | G |
| And then suddenly something is over | G |
| - | |
| My aunt's been at it longer maybe that's why she's playing better | G |
| Her cards evaporate that's what you want that's the object in the end | T |
| the one who has nothing wins | U |
Louise Gluck
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