If Home Was A Smell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFGHIJKLMNOPOHQ RSIT| If home was a smell | A |
| It would smell like aftershave and peanut butter and jam | B |
| It would smell like | C |
| Spices sweet and salty taste buds ringing | D |
| It would smell like | C |
| The tea tree oil range from The Body Shop | E |
| And notes of milk tea with Flaming Hot Cheetos finger dust and fairy lights | F |
| Home would be hardcover books and new paper and pens | G |
| It would smell like oud greenish in nature | H |
| And apple juice fresh hot naan | I |
| Home is ice cream after school | J |
| It would smell like my mother s cooking and my father s arms | K |
| My brother s strong perfumes | L |
| It would smell like Herbal Essence shampoo | M |
| Rose water and cherry blossoms | N |
| A hint of fried oranges and black pepper pear slices | O |
| Nauseating sheer qorma and Eid prayer | P |
| It would smell like sweat and skin and blue candy strawberry cheesecake and bons bons | O |
| It would smell like freshly baked bread with some butter | H |
| Industrialization and claustrophobia | Q |
| Home would be mango shakes and kulfi | R |
| It would smell like fresh grass and earth | S |
| It would smell like yellow paint and petrol and cement after rain | I |
| Home would smell like home | T |
Zaynab Akbar
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 09/07/2020
Poet's note: i wrote this imagining the things i would smell at my house. my mom's cooking, my dad's aftershave and countless other things which take me back to where i am at my most peaceful.
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