Chicago Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJKLMCJNODDPLQ DRJDDDDSTUVWXYXDZA2S B2| Hog Butcher for the World | A |
| Tool Maker Stacker of Wheat | B |
| Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler | C |
| Stormy husky brawling | D |
| City of the Big Shoulders | E |
| - | |
| They tell me you are wicked and I believe them for I | F |
| have seen your painted women under the gas lamps | G |
| luring the farm boys | H |
| And they tell me you are crooked and I answer Yes it | I |
| is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to | J |
| kill again | K |
| And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is On the | L |
| faces of women and children I have seen the marks | M |
| of wanton hunger | C |
| And having answered so I turn once more to those who | J |
| sneer at this my city and I give them back the sneer | N |
| and say to them | O |
| Come and show me another city with lifted head singing | D |
| so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning | D |
| Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on | P |
| job here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the | L |
| little soft cities | Q |
| - | |
| Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action cunning | D |
| as a savage pitted against the wilderness | R |
| Bareheaded | J |
| Shoveling | D |
| Wrecking | D |
| Planning | D |
| Building breaking rebuilding | D |
| Under the smoke dust all over his mouth laughing with | S |
| white teeth | T |
| Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young | U |
| man laughs | V |
| Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has | W |
| never lost a battle | X |
| Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse | Y |
| and under his ribs the heart of the people | X |
| Laughing | D |
| Laughing the stormy husky brawling laughter of | Z |
| Youth half naked sweating proud to be Hog | A2 |
| Butcher Tool Maker Stacker of Wheat Player with | S |
| Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation | B2 |
Carl Sandburg
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