Flanders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDE FG HIJKLM NOPQR| Flanders the name of a place a country of people | A |
| Spells itself with letters is written in books | B |
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| Where is Flanders was asked one time | C |
| Flanders known only to those who lived there | D |
| And milked cows and made cheese and spoke the home language | E |
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| Where is Flanders was asked | F |
| And the slang adepts shot the reply Search me | G |
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| A few thousand people milking cows raising radishes | H |
| On a land of salt grass and dunes sand swept with a sea breath on it | I |
| This was Flanders the unknown the quiet | J |
| The place where cows hunted lush cuds of green on lowlands | K |
| And the raw boned plowmen took horses with long shanks | L |
| Out in the dawn to the sea breath | M |
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| Flanders sat slow spoken amid slow swung windmills | N |
| Slow circling windmill arms turning north or west | O |
| Turning to talk to the swaggering winds the childish winds | P |
| So Flanders sat with the heart of a kitchen girl | Q |
| Washing wooden bowls in the winter sun by a window | R |
Carl Sandburg
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