Jack Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEAAFGHA| Jack was a swarthy swaggering son of a gun | A |
| He worked thirty years on the railroad ten hours a day | B |
| and his hands were tougher than sole leather | C |
| He married a tough woman and they had eight children | A |
| and the woman died and the children grew up and | D |
| went away and wrote the old man every two years | E |
| He died in the poorhouse sitting on a bench in the sun | A |
| telling reminiscences to other old men whose women | A |
| were dead and children scattered | F |
| There was joy on his face when he died as there was joy | G |
| on his face when he lived he was a swarthy swaggering | H |
| son of a gun | A |
Carl Sandburg
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