Interior Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDED FGHIADJJAK KLMN OLPD QK PRCAST KUVS NKWSK KAXYSZS KGKKAKIn the cool of the night time | A |
The clocks pick off the points | B |
And the mainsprings loosen | C |
They will need winding | D |
One of these days | E |
they will need winding | D |
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Rabelais in red boards | F |
Walt Whitman in green | G |
Hugo in ten cent paper covers | H |
Here they stand on shelves | I |
In the cool of the night time | A |
And there is nothing | D |
To be said against them | J |
Or for them | J |
In the cool of the night time | A |
And the docks | K |
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A man in pigeon gray pyjamas | K |
The open window begins at his feet | L |
And goes taller than his head | M |
Eight feet high is the pattern | N |
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Moon and mist make an oblong layout | O |
Silver at the man's bare feet | L |
He swings one foot in a moon silver | P |
And it costs nothing | D |
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One more day of bread and work | Q |
One more day so much rags | K |
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The man barefoot in moon silver | P |
Mutters You and You | R |
To things hidden | C |
In the cool of the night time | A |
In Rabelais Whitman Hugo | S |
In an oblong of moon mist | T |
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Out from the window prairielands | K |
Moon mist whitens a golf ground | U |
Whiter yet is a limestone quarry | V |
The crickets keep on chirring | S |
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Switch engines of the Great Western | N |
Sidetrack box cars make up trains | K |
For Weehawken Oskaloosa Saskatchewan | W |
The cattle the coal the corn must go | S |
In the night on the prairielands | K |
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Chuff chuff go the pulses | K |
They beat in the cool of the night time | A |
Chuff chuff and chuff chuff | X |
These heartbeats travel the night a mile | Y |
And touch the moon silver at the window | S |
And the hones of the man | Z |
It costs nothing | S |
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Rabelais in red boards | K |
Whitman in green | G |
Hugo in ten cent paper covers | K |
Here they stand on shelves | K |
In the cool of the night time | A |
And the clocks | K |
Carl Sandburg
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