Graceland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFGHIJKL MNOPQRSTUV

Tomb of a millionaireA
A multi millionaire ladies and gentlemenB
Place of the dead where they spend every yearC
The usury of twenty five thousand dollarsD
For upkeep and flowersD
To keep fresh the memory of the deadE
The merchant prince gone to dustF
Commanded in his written willG
Over the signed name of his last testamentH
Twenty five thousand dollars be set asideI
For roses lilacs hydrangeas tulipsJ
For perfume and color sweetness of remembranceK
Around his last long homeL
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A hundred cash girls want nickels to go to the movies to nightM
In the back stalls of a hundred saloons women are at tablesN
Drinking with men or waiting for men jingling looseO
silver dollars in their pocketsP
In a hundred furnished rooms is a girl who sells silk orQ
dress goods or leather stuff for six dollars a week wagesR
And when she pulls on her stockings in the morning sheS
is reckless about God and the newspapers and theT
police the talk of her home town or the nameU
people call herV

Carl Sandburg



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