In The Shadow Of The Palace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E| LET us go out of the fog John out of the filmy persistent drizzle on the streets of Stockholm let us put down the collars of our raincoats take off our hats and sit in the newspapers office | A |
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| Let us sit among the telegrams clickety click the kaiser's crown goes into the gutter and the Hohenzollern throne of a thousand years falls to pieces a one hoss shay | B |
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| It is a fog night out and the umbrellas are up and the collars of the raincoats and all the steamboats up and down the Baltic sea have their lights out and the wheelsmen sober | C |
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| Here the telegrams come one king goes and another butter is costly there is no butter to buy for our bread in Stockholm and a little patty of butter costs more than all the crowns of Germany | D |
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| Let us go out in the fog John let us roll up our raincoat collars and go on the streets where men are sneering at the kings | E |
Carl Sandburg
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