Graceland Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFGHIJKL MNOPQRSTUVTomb 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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