Cumulatives Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC EFGHI JKLMNOPQ| Storms have beaten on this point of land | A |
| And ships gone to wreck here | B |
| and the passers by remember it | C |
| with talk on the deck at night | D |
| as they near it | C |
| - | |
| Fists have beaten on the face of this old prize fighter | E |
| And his battles have held the sporting pages | F |
| and on the street they indicate him with their | G |
| right fore finger as one who once wore | H |
| a championship belt | I |
| - | |
| A hundred stories have been published and a thousand rumored | J |
| About why this tall dark man has divorced two beautiful | K |
| young women | L |
| And married a third who resembles the first two | M |
| and they shake their heads and say There he | N |
| goes | O |
| when he passes by in sunny weather or in rain | P |
| along the city streets | Q |
Carl Sandburg
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