Pickle Belt Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG| The fruit rolled by all day | A |
| They prayed the cogs would creep | B |
| They thought about Saturday pay | A |
| And Sunday sleep | B |
| - | |
| Whatever he smelled was good | C |
| The fruit and flesh smells mixed | D |
| There beside him she stood | C |
| And he perplexed | E |
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| He in his shrunken britches | F |
| Eyes rimmed with pickle dust | G |
| Prickling with all the itches | F |
| Of sixteen year old lust | G |
Theodore Roethke
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