Cups Of Coffee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDE FGHI HDJ ACI| THE HAGGARD woman with a hacking cough and a deathless love whispers of white | A |
| flowers in your poem you pour like a cup of coffee Gabriel | B |
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| The slim girl whose voice was lost in the waves of flesh piled on her bones and | C |
| the woman who sold to many men and saw her breasts shrivel in two poems you | D |
| pour these like a cup of coffee Francois | E |
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| The woman whose lips are a thread of scarlet the woman whose feet take hold on | F |
| hell the woman who turned to a memorial of salt looking at the lights of a | G |
| forgotten city in your affidavits ancient Jews you pour these like cups of | H |
| coffee | I |
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| The woman who took men as snakes take rabbits a rag and a bone and a hank of | H |
| hair she whose eyes called men to sea dreams and shark's teeth in a poem you | D |
| pour this like a cup of coffee Kip | J |
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| Marching to the footlights in night robes with spots of blood marching in white | A |
| sheets muffling the faces marching with heads in the air they come back and | C |
| cough and cry and sneer in your poems men you pour these like cups of coffee | I |
Carl Sandburg
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