The Last Words Of My English Grandmother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EEFE EGHH EIEJ KLEK EEMN COEC IPEQ HRSE TUEQ| There were some dirty plates | A |
| and a glass of milk | B |
| beside her on a small table | C |
| near the rank disheveled bed | D |
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| Wrinkled and nearly blind | E |
| she lay and snored | E |
| rousing with anger in her tones | F |
| to cry for food | E |
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| Gimme something to eat | E |
| They're starving me | G |
| I'm all right I won't go | H |
| to the hospital No no no | H |
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| Give me something to eat | E |
| Let me take you | I |
| to the hospital I said | E |
| and after you are well | J |
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| you can do as you please | K |
| She smiled Yes | L |
| you do what you please first | E |
| then I can do what I please | K |
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| Oh oh oh she cried | E |
| as the ambulance men lifted | E |
| her to the stretcher | M |
| Is this what you call | N |
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| making me comfortable | C |
| By now her mind was clear | O |
| Oh you think you're smart | E |
| you young people | C |
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| she said but I'll tell you | I |
| you don't know anything | P |
| Then we started | E |
| On the way | Q |
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| we passed a long row | H |
| of elms She looked at them | R |
| awhile out of | S |
| the ambulance window and said | E |
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| What are all those | T |
| fuzzy looking things out there | U |
| Trees Well I'm tired | E |
| of them and rolled her head away | Q |
William Carlos Williams
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