Cool Tombs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CDA EFA GHIIJA| When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs | A |
| he forgot the copperheads and the assassin | B |
| in the dust in the cool tombs | A |
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| And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street | C |
| cash and collateral turned ashes | D |
| in the dust in the cool tombs | A |
| - | |
| Pocahontas' body lovely as a poplar sweet as a red haw | E |
| in November or a pawpaw in May did she wonder does she remember | F |
| in the dust in the cool tombs | A |
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| Take any streetful of people buying clothes and groceries | G |
| cheering a hero or throwing confetti and blowing tin horns | H |
| tell me if the lovers are losers | I |
| tell me if any get more than the lovers | I |
| in the dust | J |
| in the cool tombs | A |
Carl Sandburg
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