House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFF| TWO Swede families live downstairs and an Irish policeman upstairs and an old soldier Uncle Joe | A |
| Two Swede boys go upstairs and see Joe His wife is dead his only son is dead and his two daughters in Missouri and Texas don't want him around | B |
| The boys and Uncle Joe crack walnuts with a hammer on the bottom of a flatiron while the January wind howls and the zero air weaves laces on the window glass | C |
| Joe tells the Swede boys all about Chickamauga and Chattanooga how the Union soldiers crept in rain somewhere a dark night and ran forward and killed many Rebels took flags held a hill and won a victory told about in the histories in school | D |
| Joe takes a piece of carpenter's chalk draws lines on the floor and piles stove wood to show where six regiments were slaughtered climbing a slope | E |
| 'Here they went' and 'Here they went ' says Joe and the January wind howls and the zero air weaves laces on the window glass | C |
| The two Swede boys go downstairs with a big blur of guns men and hills in their heads They eat herring and potatoes and tell the family war is a wonder and soldiers are a wonder | F |
| One breaks out with a cry at supper I wish we had a war now and I could be a soldier | F |
Carl Sandburg
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