1. Write the rhyme scheme by writing the appropriate letter next to each line. Approximate rhymes are allowed. 2. Write the number of syllables for each line next to the line. 3. Answer the questions on the back.

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout would not take the garbage out she'd scour the pots and scrape the pans candy the yams and spice the hand, and though her daddy would scream and shout she simply would not take the garbage out and so it piled up to the ceilings coffee grounds potato peelings Brown bananas rotten peas chunks of sour cottage cheese it filled the can it covered the floor it cracked the window and blocked the door with bacon rinds and chicken bones drippy ends of ice cream cones prune pits peach pits orange peel gloppy glumps of cold oatmeal pizza crust and withered greens soggy beans and tangerines crusts of black burned butter toast grizzly bits of beefy roasts the garbage rolled on down the hall it erased the roof it broke the wall greasy napkins cookie crumbs globs of gooey bubble gum cellophane from Green baloney robbery blueberry macaroni peanut butter caked and dry grilled milk and crust of pie moldy melons dried up mustard eggshells mixed with lemon custard cold french fries and rancid meat yellow lumps of cream and wheat at last the garbage reach so high that finally it touched the sky and all the neighbors moved away and none of her friends would come to play and finally Sarah Cynthia Stout said okay I'll take the garbage out but then of course it was too late the garbage reached across the state from New York to the Golden gate and there in the garbage she did hate poor Sarah Matt and awful fate that I cannot right now relate because the hour is much too late but children remember Sarah Stout and always take the garbage out

1. Find six examples of alliteration

2. Find two examples of repetition

3. Find eight adjectives that describe the mess

4.Find a hyperbole.

5. Write two lines that have end rhyme​