Accomplished Facts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB BCD EFA GHIJKLMN OPQRST U| Every year Emily Dickinson sent one friend | A |
| the first arbutus bud in her garden | B |
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| In a last will and testament Andrew Jackson | B |
| remembered a friend with the gift of George | C |
| Washington s pocket spy glass | D |
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| Napoleon too in a last testament mentioned a silver | E |
| watch taken from the bedroom of Frederick the Great | F |
| and passed along this trophy to a particular friend | A |
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| O Henry took a blood carnation from his coat lapel | G |
| and handed it to a country girl starting work in a | H |
| bean bazaar and scribbled Peach blossoms may or | I |
| may not stay pink in city dust | J |
| So it goes Some things we buy some not | K |
| Tom Jefferson was proud of his radishes and Abe | L |
| Lincoln blacked his own boots and Bismarck called | M |
| Berlin a wilderness of brick and newspapers | N |
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| So it goes There are accomplished facts | O |
| Ride ride ride on in the great new blimps | P |
| Cross unheard of oceans circle the planet | Q |
| When you come back we may sit by five hollyhocks | R |
| We might listen to boys fighting for marbles | S |
| The grasshopper will look good to us | T |
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| So it goes | U |
Carl Sandburg
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