Fruit Cup

Fruit Cup is a lovely introspective poem about contemplating, and then eating, a fruit cup! Of course, one can't help but wonder if the fruit cup knows it is going to be eaten, and, as well, once eaten, how that fruit cup might be influential in the resulting satiation!


    There are three stanzas of ten lines each. The lines are split into two lines, an upper line of 7 syllables whose emphasis/meter is: da DUM da da da DUM da, and a lower line of 5 syllables whose emphasis/meter is: DUM da da da DUM. The rhyme scheme of the stanzas' lines is: AABBCCDDEE, but, because each line is split into two lines the rhyme scheme becomes ABCB, etc.


    While the structure of three stanzas has been maintained as three chapter breaks, each stanza has had its lines split-apart in order to preserve the intent (the pacing) of each line, and thus each line may be given its own page; there may be instances, however, where managing the evolution of the poem in your mind, some lines have been split into multiple pages or multiple lines of a stanza remain on the same page (making it so a chapter is not necessarily equal to the count of lines of a stanza).