Attack Of The Squash People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIHJ KLEEELM ENEEOPQJER STTET UGTVTTTWX| And thus the people every year | A |
| in the valley of humid July | B |
| did sacrifice themselves | C |
| to the long green phallic god | D |
| and eat and eat and eat | E |
| They're coming they're on us | F |
| the long striped gourds the silky | G |
| babies the hairy adolescents | H |
| the lumpy vast adults | I |
| like the trunks of green elephants | H |
| Recite fifty zucchini recipes | J |
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| Zucchini tempura creamed soup | K |
| saut with olive oil and cumin | L |
| tomatoes onion frittata | E |
| casserole of lamb baked | E |
| topped with cheese marinated | E |
| stuffed stewed driven | L |
| through the heart like a stake | M |
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| Get rid of old friends they too | E |
| have gardens and full trunks | N |
| Look for newcomers befriend | E |
| them in the post office unload | E |
| on them and run Stop tourists | O |
| in the street Take truckloads | P |
| to Boston Give to your Red Cross | Q |
| Beg on the highway please | J |
| take my zucchini I have a crippled | E |
| mother at home with heartburn | R |
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| Sneak out before dawn to drop | S |
| them in other people's gardens | T |
| in baby buggies at churchdoors | T |
| Shot smuggling zucchini into | E |
| mailboxes a federal offense | T |
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| With a suave reptilian glitter | U |
| you bask among your raspy | G |
| fronds sudden and huge as | T |
| alligators You give and give | V |
| too much like summer days | T |
| limp with heat thunderstorms | T |
| bursting their bags on our heads | T |
| as we salt and freeze and pickle | W |
| for the too little to come | X |
Marge Piercy
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