The Geranium Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFDCGHIAJK LMNDO NNPQI RN| When 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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