In A Breath Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BACD EFGHGI JKLLMINL OPQ| To the Williamson Brothers | A |
| - | |
| High noon White sun flashes on the Michigan Avenue | B |
| asphalt Drum of hoofs and whirr of motors | A |
| Women trapsing along in flimsy clothes catching | C |
| play of sun fire to their skin and eyes | D |
| - | |
| Inside the playhouse are movies from under the sea | E |
| From the heat of pavements and the dust of sidewalks | F |
| passers by go in a breath to be witnesses of | G |
| large cool sponges large cool fishes large cool valleys | H |
| and ridges of coral spread silent in the soak of | G |
| the ocean floor thousands of years | I |
| - | |
| A naked swimmer dives A knife in his right hand | J |
| shoots a streak at the throat of a shark The tail | K |
| of the shark lashes One swing would kill the swimmer | L |
| Soon the knife goes into the soft under | L |
| neck of the veering fish Its mouthful of teeth | M |
| each tooth a dagger itself set row on row glistens | I |
| when the shuddering yawning cadaver is hauled up | N |
| by the brothers of the swimmer | L |
| - | |
| Outside in the street is the murmur and singing of life | O |
| in the sun horses motors women trapsing along | P |
| in flimsy clothes play of sun fire in their blood | Q |
Carl Sandburg
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