Hoodlums Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACDEFGFH| I AM a hoodlum you are a hoodlum we and all of us are a world of hoodlums maybe so | A |
| I hate and kill better men than I am so do you so do all of us maybe maybe so | A |
| In the ends of my fingers the itch for another man's neck I want to see him hanging one of dusk's cartoons against the sunset | B |
| This is the hate my father gave me this was in my mother's milk this is you and me and all of us in a world of hoodlums maybe so | A |
| Let us go on brother hoodlums let us kill and kill it has always been so it will always be so there is nothing more to it | C |
| Let us go on sister hoodlums kill kill and kill the torsoes of the world's mother's are tireless and the loins of the world's fathers are strong so go on kill kill kill | D |
| Lay them deep in the dirt the stiffs we fixed the cadavers bumped off lay them deep and let the night winds of winter blizzards howl their burial service | E |
| The night winds and the winter the great white sheets of northern blizzards who can sing better for the lost hoodlums the old requiem 'Kill him kill him ' | F |
| Today my son to morrow yours the day after your next door neighbor's it is all in the wrists of the gods who shoot craps it is anybody's guess whose eyes shut next | G |
| Being a hoodlum now you and I being all of us a world of hoodlums let us take up the cry when the mob sluffs by on a thousand shoe soles let us too yammer 'Kill him kill him ' | F |
| Let us do this now for our mothers for our sisters and wives let us kill kill kill for the torsoes of the women are tireless and the loins of the men are strong Chicago July | H |
Carl Sandburg
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