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Who breathes the air when crisp and clear
but fails to feel some gratitude
for life upon our blessed sphere,
a place of pure beatitude?
'Tis he who chokes on fetid smog
as forests fall and highways clog
and shrugs his shoulders as if dumb
when asking what our world's become.
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Author Notes
The rispetto is an eight line poem of Italian origin written in iambic tetrameter. The rhyme scheme of the first quatrain is abab. The rhyme scheme in the second quatrain switches to ccdd.
beatitude = a state of supreme blessedness or happiness
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