An Electric Sign Goes Dark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EF GHI JKLM GNO PQ| Poland France Judea ran in her veins | A |
| Singing to Paris for bread singing to Gotham in a fizz at the pop of a bottle s cork | B |
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| Won t you come and play wiz me she sang and I just can t make my eyes behave | C |
| Higgeldy Piggeldy Papa s Wife Follow Me were plays | D |
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| Did she wash her feet in a tub of milk Was a strand of pearls sneaked from her trunk The newspapers asked | E |
| Cigarettes tulips pacing horses took her name | F |
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| Twenty years old thirty forty | G |
| Forty five and the doctors fathom nothing the doctors quarrel the doctors use silver tubes feeding twenty four quarts of blood into the veins the respects of a prize fighter a cab driver | H |
| And a little mouth moans It is easy to die when they are dying so many grand deaths in France | I |
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| A voice a shape gone | J |
| A baby bundle from Warsaw legs torso head on a hotel bed at The Savoy | K |
| The white chiselings of flesh that flung themselves in somersaults straddles for packed houses | L |
| A memory a stage and footlights out an electric sign on Broadway dark | M |
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| She belonged to somebody nobody | G |
| No one man owned her no ten nor a thousand | N |
| She belonged to many thousand men lovers of the white chiseling of arms and shoulders the ivory of a laugh the bells of song | O |
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| Railroad brakemen taking trains across Nebraska prairies lumbermen jaunting in pine and tamarack of the Northwest stock ranchers in the middle west mayors of southern cities | P |
| Say to their pals and wives now I see by the papers Anna Held is dead | Q |
Carl Sandburg
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