Killers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHI JKLL MNNO PQRS STULF| I am singing to you | A |
| Soft as a man with a dead child speaks | B |
| Hard as a man in handcuffs | C |
| Held where he cannot move | D |
| - | |
| Under the sun | E |
| Are sixteen million men | F |
| Chosen for shining teeth | G |
| Sharp eyes hard legs | H |
| And a running of young warm blood in their wrists | I |
| - | |
| And a red juice runs on the green grass | J |
| And a red juice soaks the dark soil | K |
| And the sixteen million are killing and killing | L |
| and killing | L |
| - | |
| I never forget them day or night | M |
| They beat on my head for memory of them | N |
| They pound on my heart and I cry back to them | N |
| To their homes and women dreams and games | O |
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| I wake in the night and smell the trenches | P |
| And hear the low stir of sleepers in lines | Q |
| Sixteen million sleepers and pickets in the dark | R |
| Some of them long sleepers for always | S |
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| Some of them tumbling to sleep to morrow for always | S |
| Fixed in the drag of the world's heartbreak | T |
| Eating and drinking toiling on a long job of | U |
| killing | L |
| Sixteen million men | F |
Carl Sandburg
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