Jug Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG| THE SHALE and water thrown together so so first of all | A |
| Then a potter's hand on the wheel and his fingers shaping the jug out of the mud a mouth and a handle | B |
| Slimpsy loose and ready to fall at a touch fire plays on it slow fire coaxing all the water out of the shale mix | C |
| Dipped in glaze more fire plays on it till a molasses lava runs in waves rises and retreats a varnish of volcanoes | D |
| Take it now out of mud now here is a mouth and handle out of this now mothers will pour milk and maple syrup and cider vinegar apple juice and sorghum | E |
| There is nothing proud about this only one out of many the potter's wheel slings them out and the fires harden them hours and hours thousands and thousands | F |
| 'Be good to me put me down easy on the floors of the new concrete houses I was poured out like a concrete house and baked in fire too ' | G |
Carl Sandburg
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