A Summer Summary
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
Shall I, lying in a grot,
Die because the day is hot?
Or declare I can't endure
Such a torrid temperature?
Be it hotter than the flames
South Gehenna Junction claims,
If it be not so to me,
What care I how hot it be?
Shall I say I love the town
Praised by Robinson and Browne?
Shall I say, 'In summer heat
Old Manhattan can't be beat?'
Be it luring as a bar,
Or my neighbour's motor-car,
If I think it is pazziz
What care I how fine it is?
Shall I prate of rural joys
Far from civic smoke and noise?
Shall I, like the others, drool
'But the nights are always cool?'
If I hate to rise at six
Shall I praise the suburbs? Nix!
If the country's not for me,
What care I how good it be?
Town or country, cool or hot,
Differs nothing, matters not;
For to quote that Roman cuss,
Why dispute 'de gustibus?'
If to this or that one should
Take a fancy, it is good.
If these rhymes look good to me,
What care I how bad they be?
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AAXXBBCC DDAAEEBX FFGGHHCC AAXBAACC |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 908 |
Words | 193 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
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