Baltic Fog Notes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFG HIJKL MN OP| Seven days all fog all mist and the turbines pounding through high seas | A |
| I was a plaything a rat s neck in the teeth of a scuffling mastiff | B |
| Fog and fog and no stars sun moon | C |
| Then an afternoon in fjords low lying lands scrawled in granite languages on a gray sky | D |
| A night harbor blue dusk mountain shoulders against a night sky | D |
| And a circle of lights blinking Ninety thousand people here | E |
| Among the Wednesday night thousands in goloshes and coats slickered for rain | F |
| I learned how hungry I was for streets and people | G |
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| I would rather be water than anything else | H |
| I saw a drive of salt fog and mist in the North Atlantic and an iceberg dusky as a cloud in the gray of morning | I |
| And I saw the dream pools of fjords in Norway and the scarf of dancing water on the rocks and over the edges of mountain shelves | J |
| Bury me in a mountain graveyard in Norway | K |
| Three tongues of water sing around it with snow from the mountains | L |
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| Bury me in the North Atlantic | M |
| A fog there from Iceland will be a murmur in gray over me and a long deep wind sob always | N |
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| Bury me in an Illinois cornfield | O |
| The blizzards loosen their pipe organ voluntaries in winter stubble and the spring rains and the fall rains bring letters from the sea | P |
Carl Sandburg
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