The Geranium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFDCGHIAJK LMNDO NNPQI RN

When I put her out once by the garbage pailA
She looked so limp and bedraggledB
So foolish and trusting like a sick poodleC
Or a wizened aster in late SeptemberD
I brought her back in againE
For a new routineF
Vitamins water and whateverD
Sustenance seemed sensibleC
At the time she'd livedG
So long on gin bobbie pins half smoked cigars dead beerH
Her shriveled petals fallingI
On the faded carpet the staleA
Steak grease stuck to her fuzzy leavesJ
Dried out she creaked like a tulipK
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The things she enduredL
The dumb dames shrieking half the nightM
Or the two of us alone both seedyN
Me breathing booze at herD
She leaning out of her pot toward the windowO
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Near the end she seemed almost to hear meN
And that was scaryN
So when that snuffling cretin of a maidP
Threw her pot and all into the trash canQ
I said nothingI
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But I sacked the presumptuous hag the next weekR
I was that lonelyN

Theodore Roethke



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