Kiwi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGBBHHII HHJJKKHHLLMMHHDDJJHH NNOPHHHBHH| Fruit without a stone its shiny | A |
| pulp is clear green Inside tiny | A |
| black microdot seeds Skin | B |
| the color of khakiImagine | B |
| a shaggy brown green pelt | C |
| that feels like felt | C |
| It's oval full rounded kind | D |
| of egg shaped The rind | D |
| comes off in strips | E |
| when peeled with the lips | E |
| If ripe full of juice | F |
| melon sweet yet tart as goose | F |
| berry almost A translucent ring | G |
| of seed dots looks something | G |
| like a coin slice of banana Grown | B |
| in the tropics some stone | B |
| fruits overlarge are queerly | H |
| formed A slablike pit nearly | H |
| fills the mango I | I |
| scrape the fibrous pulp off with my | I |
| teeth That slick round ball | H |
| in avocado fruit without juice we call | H |
| alligator pear | J |
| Plant this seedpit with care | J |
| on three toothpicks over a glass | K |
| of water It can come to pass | K |
| in time that you'll see | H |
| an entire avocado tree | H |
| Some fruits have stones some seeds | L |
| Papaya's loaded with slimy black beads | L |
| Some seem seedlesslike quince | M |
| that makes your tastebuds wince | M |
| Persimmon will | H |
| be sour astringent 'until | H |
| dead ripe ' they say Behind | D |
| pomegranate's leathery rind | D |
| is a sackful of moist rubies Pear | J |
| cantaloupe grapefruit guava keep their | J |
| seeds hidden as do raspberry strawberry | H |
| pineapple Plum peach and cherry | H |
| we know as fruits with big | N |
| seedstones And fig | N |
| Its graininess is seed Hard to believe | O |
| is prickly durian It's custard | P |
| sweetand smells nasty | H |
| But there's no fruit as tasty | H |
| as odd or as funny | H |
| none | B |
| as fresh off the vine New Zea | H |
| land kiwi | H |
May Swenson
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