Broken-face Gargoyles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFG HIDJKLF AI MK| ALL I can give you is broken face gargoyles | A |
| It is too early to sing and dance at funerals | B |
| Though I can whisper to you I am looking for an undertaker humming a lullaby and throwing his feet in a swift and mystic buck and wing now you see it and now you don't | C |
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| Fish to swim a pool in your garden flashing a speckled silver | D |
| A basket of wine saps filling your room with flame dark for your eyes and the tang of valley orchards for your nose | E |
| Such a beautiful pail of fish such a beautiful peck of apples I cannot bring you now | F |
| It is too early and I am not footloose yet | G |
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| I shall come in the night when I come with a hammer and saw | H |
| I shall come near your window where you look out when your eyes open in the morning | I |
| And there I shall slam together bird houses and bird baths for wing loose wrens and hummers to live in birds with yellow wing tips to blur and buzz soft all summer | D |
| So I shall make little fool homes with doors always open doors for all and each to run away when they want to | J |
| I shall come just like that even though now it is early and I am not yet footloose | K |
| Even though I am still looking for an undertaker with a raw wind bitten face and a dance in his feet | L |
| I make a date with you put it down for six o'clock in the evening a thousand years from now | F |
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| All I can give you now is broken face gargoyles | A |
| All I can give you now is a double gorilla head with two fish mouths and four eagle eyes hooked on a street wall spouting water and looking two ways to the ends of the street for the new people the young strangers coming coming always coming | I |
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| It is early | M |
| I shall yet be footloose | K |
Carl Sandburg
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