Boes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIHJKBLBGMBNO OPQJR| I waited today for a freight train to pass | A |
| Cattle cars with steers butting their horns against the | B |
| bars went by | C |
| And a half a dozen hoboes stood on bumpers between | D |
| cars | E |
| Well the cattle are respectable I thought | F |
| Every steer has its transportation paid for by the farmer | G |
| sending it to market | H |
| While the hoboes are law breakers in riding a railroad | I |
| train without a ticket | H |
| It reminded me of ten days I spent in the Allegheny | J |
| County jail in Pittsburgh | K |
| I got ten days even though I was a veteran of the | B |
| Spanish American war | L |
| Cooped in the same cell with me was an old man a | B |
| bricklayer and a booze fighter | G |
| But it just happened he too was a veteran soldier and | M |
| he had fought to preserve the Union and free the | B |
| niggers | N |
| We were three in all the other being a Lithuanian who | O |
| got drunk on pay day at the steel works and got to | O |
| fighting a policeman | P |
| All the clothes he had was a shirt pants and shoes | Q |
| somebody got his hat and coat and what money he | J |
| had left over when he got drunk | R |
Carl Sandburg
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