Mekong Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDDEFGDDFHIHFJKFF FLMN| Happy Viet Cong and their children | A |
| live now on the Mekong Delta cone hats | B |
| smiles motors' chug is the river's heartbeat | C |
| and the river here's deep and wide as the sea | D |
| Restaurateurs sidle up in rowboats | D |
| serve bread soup and endless species | D |
| of noodles tea coffee beer and python | E |
| the dishes are washed clean in the river | F |
| Dug out canoes and basket boats wobble | G |
| and children hang on to tyres and logs | D |
| swim float on their backs | D |
| anything to be in the water | F |
| more fish here than the Atlantic | H |
| and enough snakes to feed China | I |
| You can go ashore to buy something electric | H |
| or catch a bus to some place drier | F |
| and even there will be waterlogged | J |
| rice growing everywhere The rain slants down | K |
| to make things wetter whip up the river | F |
| like a rough day in harbour | F |
| There's no land no water richer | F |
| moonlight swims with the carp | L |
| the moon's eye looking out | M |
| from every prow | N |
S. K. Kelen
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