This is another poem submitted in my application.  Obviously, it was inspired by the playground at our lovely local elementary school.  

Each stanza of this poem is called a sestain. A sestain is a six-line unit of poetry.  Each sestain is considered a tail-rhyme stanza due to it's meter of AABCCB, DDBEEB .... and so on.  Those letters represent rhyming lines, so that the "A"s rhyme, "B"s rhyme, etc.... Each tail-rhyme sestain utilizes repetition to draw importance to the subject matter.  Each third line repeats "the Cape View playground" beginning either with "From" or "On" to provide a slight break from monotony.  Therefore, each stanza contains a couplet (AA), a tail-rhyme line (B), another couplet (CC), and a repetitive tail-rhyme line (B).   

Some couplets here are true rhymes or perfect rhymes.  That means that the words actually completely rhyme with each other ("roar" and "shore").  Others are soft rhymes, meaning that the words do not quite rhyme, but the sound is pretty close and not distracting to the rhythm ("matches" and "badges").

The Cape View Playground

I saw the spaceships streak through the sky
Contrail streamers prismatic to the eyes
From the Cape View playground
I saw myself as an astronaut
Or building the next-gen roving robot
From the Cape View playground

Pretend soldiers and wrestling matches
Firemen’s hose and officer badges
On the Cape View playground
Used my hand to draw some peacocks
Made friends in many swing set frolics
On the Cape View playground

I heard the ocean’s diapasonal roar
Through the palms I spotted the shore
From the Cape View playground
Smell the food trucks, hear the folks
Dancing through the market on Polk
From the Cape View playground

Spot the Station and satellites
And constellations scattered in stars at night
On the Cape View playground
We watched the anoles, racers, and frogs
And busy ant hills in the morning fog
On the Cape View playground

Years from now, older, I will return
With meandering memories of lessons learned
From the Cape View playground
May the tide flow and sun show on these youth
And their fervent faith in the diversity of truth
From the Cape View playground

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