Interior Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDED FGHIADJJAK KLMN OLPD QK PRCAST KUVS NKWSK KAXYSZS KGKKAK| In 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| One more day of bread and work | Q |
| One more day so much rags | K |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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