I Am The People, The Mob Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFEGCHFIJKJDLMN DOP| I am the people the mob the crowd the mass | A |
| Do you know that all the great work of the world is | B |
| done through me | C |
| I am the workingman the inventor the maker of the | D |
| world's food and clothes | E |
| I am the audience that witnesses history The Napoleons | E |
| come from me and the Lincolns They die And | F |
| then I send forth more Napoleons and Lincolns | E |
| I am the seed ground I am a prairie that will stand | G |
| for much plowing Terrible storms pass over me | C |
| I forget The best of me is sucked out and wasted | H |
| I forget Everything but Death comes to me and | F |
| makes me work and give up what I have And I | I |
| forget | J |
| Sometimes I growl shake myself and spatter a few red | K |
| drops for history to remember Then I forget | J |
| When I the People learn to remember when I the | D |
| People use the lessons of yesterday and no longer | L |
| forget who robbed me last year who played me for | M |
| a fool then there will be no speaker in all the world | N |
| say the name The People with any fleck of a | D |
| sneer in his voice or any far off smile of derision | O |
| The mob the crowd the mass will arrive then | P |
Carl Sandburg
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