Aprons Of Silence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HIJKH LMINOPQPIRS| Many things I might have said today | A |
| And I kept my mouth shut | B |
| So many times I was asked | C |
| To come and say the same things | D |
| Everybody was saying no end | E |
| To the yes yes yes yes | F |
| me too me too | G |
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| The aprons of silence covered me | H |
| A wire and hatch held my tongue | I |
| I spit nails into an abyss and listened | J |
| I shut off the gable of Jones Johnson Smith | K |
| All whose names take pages in the city directory | H |
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| I fixed up a padded cell and lugged it around | L |
| I locked myself in and nobody knew it | M |
| Only the keeper and the kept in the hoosegow | I |
| Knew it on the streets in the post office | N |
| On the cars into the railroad station | O |
| Where the caller was calling All a board | P |
| All a board for Blaa blaa Blaa blaa | Q |
| Blaa blaa and all points northwest all a board | P |
| Here I took along my own hoosegow | I |
| And did business with my own thoughts | R |
| Do you see It must be the aprons of silence | S |
Carl Sandburg
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