Graceland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFGHIJKL MNOPQRSTUV| Tomb of a millionaire | A |
| A multi millionaire ladies and gentlemen | B |
| Place of the dead where they spend every year | C |
| The usury of twenty five thousand dollars | D |
| For upkeep and flowers | D |
| To keep fresh the memory of the dead | E |
| The merchant prince gone to dust | F |
| Commanded in his written will | G |
| Over the signed name of his last testament | H |
| Twenty five thousand dollars be set aside | I |
| For roses lilacs hydrangeas tulips | J |
| For perfume and color sweetness of remembrance | K |
| Around his last long home | L |
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| A hundred cash girls want nickels to go to the movies to night | M |
| In the back stalls of a hundred saloons women are at tables | N |
| Drinking with men or waiting for men jingling loose | O |
| silver dollars in their pockets | P |
| In a hundred furnished rooms is a girl who sells silk or | Q |
| dress goods or leather stuff for six dollars a week wages | R |
| And when she pulls on her stockings in the morning she | S |
| is reckless about God and the newspapers and the | T |
| police the talk of her home town or the name | U |
| people call her | V |
Carl Sandburg
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