Kiwi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGBBHHII HHJJKKHHLLMMHHDDJJHH NNOPHHHBHHFruit 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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