A Tall Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDEFG HIJJJ KLKHH| The mouth of this man is a gaunt strong mouth | A |
| The head of this man is a gaunt strong head | B |
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| The jaws of this man are bone of the Rocky Mountains the Appalachians | C |
| The eyes of this man are chlorine of two sobbing oceans | C |
| Foam salt green wind the changing unknown | D |
| The neck of this man is pith of buffalo prairie old longing and new beckoning of corn belt or cotton belt | E |
| Either a proud Sequoia trunk of the wilderness | F |
| Or huddling lumber of a sawmill waiting to be a roof | G |
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| Brother mystery to man and mob mystery | H |
| Brother cryptic to lifted cryptic hands | I |
| He is night and abyss he is white sky of sun he is the head of the people | J |
| The heart of him the red drops of the people | J |
| The wish of him the steady gray eagle crag hunting flights of the people | J |
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| Humble dust of a wheel worn road | K |
| Slashed sod under the iron shining plow | L |
| These of service in him these and many cities many borders many wrangles between Alaska and the Isthmus between the Isthmus and the Horn and east and west of Omaha and east and west of Paris Berlin Petrograd | K |
| The blood in his right wrist and the blood in his left wrist run with the right wrist wisdom of the many and the left wrist wisdom of the many | H |
| It is the many he knows the gaunt strong hunger of the many | H |
Carl Sandburg
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