Squash In Blossom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GCCG| How lush how loose the uninhibited squash is | A |
| If ever hearts and these immoderate leaves | B |
| Are vegetable hearts were worn on sleeves | B |
| The squash's are In green the squash vine gushes | A |
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| The flowers are cornucopias of summer | C |
| Briefly exuberant and cheaply golden | D |
| And if they make a show of being hidden | D |
| Are open promiscuously to every comer | C |
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| Let the squash be what it was doomed to be | E |
| By the old Gardener with the shrewd green thumb | F |
| Let it expand and sprawl defenceless dumb | F |
| But let me be the fiber disciplined tree | E |
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| Whose leaf with something to say in wind is small | G |
| Reduced to the ingenuity of a green splinter | C |
| Sharp to defy or fraternize with winter | C |
| Or if not that prepared in fall to fall | G |
Robert Francis
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