Caboose Thoughts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CDED FCGFGHIJ KC IL GM NOP QI QRI ISITIQ UKV AAB| IT'S going to come out all right do you know | A |
| The sun the birds the grass they know | A |
| They get along and we'll get along | B |
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| Some days will be rainy and you will sit waiting | C |
| And the letter you wait for won't come | D |
| And I will sit watching the sky tear off gray and gray | E |
| And the letter I wait for won't come | D |
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| There will be ac ci dents | F |
| I know ac ci dents are coming | C |
| Smash ups signals wrong washouts trestles rotten | G |
| Red and yellow ac ci dents | F |
| But somehow and somewhere the end of the run | G |
| The train gets put together again | H |
| And the caboose and the green tail lights | I |
| Fade down the right of way like a new white hope | J |
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| I never heard a mockingbird in Kentucky | K |
| Spilling its heart in the morning | C |
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| I never saw the snow on Chimborazo | I |
| It's a high white Mexican hat I hear | L |
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| I never had supper with Abe Lincoln | G |
| Nor a dish of soup with Jim Hill | M |
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| But I've been around | N |
| I know some of the boys here who can go a little | O |
| I know girls good for a burst of speed any time | P |
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| I heard Williams and Walker | Q |
| Before Walker died in the bughouse | I |
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| I knew a mandolin player | Q |
| Working in a barber shop in an Indiana town | R |
| And he thought he had a million dollars | I |
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| I knew a hotel girl in Des Moines | I |
| She had eyes I saw her and said to myself | S |
| The sun rises and the sun sets in her eyes | I |
| I was her steady and her heart went pit a pat | T |
| We took away the money for a prize waltz at a Brotherhood dance | I |
| She had eyes she was safe as the bridge over the Mississippi at Burlington I married her | Q |
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| Last summer we took the cushions going west | U |
| Pike's Peak is a big old stone believe me | K |
| It's fastened down something you can count on | V |
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| It's going to come out all right do you know | A |
| The sun the birds the grass they know | A |
| They get along and we'll get along | B |
Carl Sandburg
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