The Geranium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFDCGHIAJK LMNDO NNPQI RNWhen I put her out once by the garbage pail | A |
She looked so limp and bedraggled | B |
So foolish and trusting like a sick poodle | C |
Or a wizened aster in late September | D |
I brought her back in again | E |
For a new routine | F |
Vitamins water and whatever | D |
Sustenance seemed sensible | C |
At the time she'd lived | G |
So long on gin bobbie pins half smoked cigars dead beer | H |
Her shriveled petals falling | I |
On the faded carpet the stale | A |
Steak grease stuck to her fuzzy leaves | J |
Dried out she creaked like a tulip | K |
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The things she endured | L |
The dumb dames shrieking half the night | M |
Or the two of us alone both seedy | N |
Me breathing booze at her | D |
She leaning out of her pot toward the window | O |
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Near the end she seemed almost to hear me | N |
And that was scary | N |
So when that snuffling cretin of a maid | P |
Threw her pot and all into the trash can | Q |
I said nothing | I |
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But I sacked the presumptuous hag the next week | R |
I was that lonely | N |
Theodore Roethke
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