Buttons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHG IJKLHMKB| I have been watching the war map slammed up for | A |
| advertising in front of the newspaper office | B |
| Buttons red and yellow buttons blue and black buttons | C |
| are shoved back and forth across the map | D |
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| A laughing young man sunny with freckles | E |
| Climbs a ladder yells a joke to somebody in the crowd | F |
| And then fixes a yellow button one inch west | G |
| And follows the yellow button with a black button one | H |
| inch west | G |
| - | |
| Ten thousand men and boys twist on their bodies in | I |
| a red soak along a river edge | J |
| Gasping of wounds calling for water some rattling | K |
| death in their throats | L |
| Who would guess what it cost to move two buttons one | H |
| inch on the war map here in front of the newspaper | M |
| office where the freckle faced young man is laughing | K |
| to us | B |
Carl Sandburg
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