California City Landscape Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHDIJKLMNDOPKD QRSTUH| On a mountain side the real estate agents | A |
| Put up signs marking the city lots to be sold there | B |
| A man whose father and mother were Irish | C |
| Ran a goat farm half way down the mountain | D |
| He drove a covered wagon years ago | E |
| Understood how to handle a rifle | F |
| Shot grouse buffalo Indians in a single year | G |
| And now was raising goats around a shanty | H |
| Down at the foot of the mountain | D |
| Two Japanese families had flower farms | I |
| A man and woman were in rows of sweet peas | J |
| Picking the pink and white flowers | K |
| To put in baskets and take to the Los Angeles market | L |
| They were clean as what they handled | M |
| There in the morning sun the big people and the baby faces | N |
| Across the road high on another mountain | D |
| Stood a house saying 'I am it ' a commanding house | O |
| There was the home of a motion picture director | P |
| Famous for lavish house interiors | K |
| Clothes ransacked from the latest designs for women | D |
| In the combats of 'male against female ' | Q |
| The mountain the scenery the layout of the landscape | R |
| And the peace of the morning sun as it happened | S |
| The miles of houses pocketed in the valley beyond | T |
| It was all worth looking at worth wondering about | U |
| How long it might last how young it might be | H |
Carl Sandburg
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