The Price Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBBCDAE FBDADCCC BGCA| Knee deep in the Watauga's | A |
| rock leaping whitewater | B |
| my brother loses his balance | A |
| his life if our father | B |
| doesn't flail downstream swimming | C |
| the air running the river | B |
| tripping the stones to collar | B |
| his son gasping and coughing | C |
| onto a sandbar as he | D |
| confirms with tentative fingers | A |
| his empty back pocket | E |
| - | |
| We pace back and forth on the shoreline | F |
| down to the bridge the other | B |
| bank before the sun finally | D |
| falls blurring the world into darkness | A |
| my father not saying don't worry | D |
| a life is priceless not saying | C |
| something like that not tousling | C |
| my brother's hair and smiling | C |
| - | |
| For this is October My father | B |
| believes he'll be fired soon | G |
| will face winter's cold coming | C |
| without thirty four washed away dollars | A |
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