Bored Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFAGHIJCKHLMHCNH CCCOPHQRMMSTUVWMAXW| All those times I was bored | A |
| out of my mind Holding the log | B |
| while he sawed it Holding | C |
| the string while he measured boards | D |
| distances between things or pounded | E |
| stakes into the ground for rows and rows | F |
| of lettuces and beets which I then bored | A |
| weeded Or sat in the back | G |
| of the car or sat still in boats | H |
| sat sat while at the prow stern wheel | I |
| he drove steered paddled It | J |
| wasn't even boredom it was looking | C |
| looking hard and up close at the small | K |
| details Myopia The worn gunwales | H |
| the intricate twill of the seat | L |
| cover The acid crumbs of loam the granular | M |
| pink rock its igneous veins the sea fans | H |
| of dry moss the blackish and then the graying | C |
| bristles on the back of his neck | N |
| Sometimes he would whistle sometimes | H |
| I would The boring rhythm of doing | C |
| things over and over carrying | C |
| the wood drying | C |
| the dishes Such minutiae It's what | O |
| the animals spend most of their time at | P |
| ferrying the sand grain by grain from their tunnels | H |
| shuffling the leaves in their burrows He pointed | Q |
| such things out and I would look | R |
| at the whorled texture of his square finger earth under | M |
| the nail Why do I remember it as sunnier | M |
| all the time then although it more often | S |
| rained and more birdsong | T |
| I could hardly wait to get | U |
| the hell out of there to | V |
| anywhere else Perhaps though | W |
| boredom is happier It is for dogs or | M |
| groundhogs Now I wouldn't be bored | A |
| Now I would know too much | X |
| Now I would know | W |
Margaret Atwood
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