How Yesterday Looked Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CDE FGH IJK LMN OPQ| THE HIGH horses of the sea broke their white riders | A |
| On the walls that held and counted the hours | A |
| The wind lasted | B |
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| Two landbirds looked on and the north and the east | C |
| Looked on and the wind poured cups of foam | D |
| And the evening began | E |
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| The old men in the shanties looked on and lit their | F |
| Pipes and the young men spoke of the girls | G |
| For a wild night like this | H |
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| The south and the west looked on and the moon came | I |
| When the wind went down and the sea was sorry | J |
| And the singing slow | K |
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| Ask how the sunset looked between the wind going | L |
| Down and the moon coming up and I would struggle | M |
| To tell the how of it | N |
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| I give you fire here I give you water I give you | O |
| The wind that blew them across and across | P |
| The scooping mixing wind | Q |
Carl Sandburg
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