Joliet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJK FFLMNBO| ON the one hand the steel works | A |
| On the other hand the penitentiary | B |
| Sante Fe trains and Alton trains | C |
| Between smokestacks on the west | D |
| And gray walls on the east | E |
| And Lockport down the river | F |
| - | |
| Part of the valley is God's | G |
| And part is man's | H |
| The river course laid out | I |
| A thousand years ago | J |
| The canals ten years back | K |
| - | |
| The sun on two canals and one river | F |
| Makes three stripes of silver | F |
| Or copper and gold | L |
| Or shattered sunflower leaves | M |
| Talons of an iceberg | N |
| Scraped out this valley | B |
| Claws of an avalanche loosed here | O |
Carl Sandburg
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