Languages Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEFGHFIJKLIKMNOP QRQ| There are no handles upon a language | A |
| Whereby men take hold of it | B |
| And mark it with signs for its remembrance | C |
| It is a river this language | A |
| Once in a thousand years | D |
| Breaking a new course | E |
| Changing its way to the ocean | F |
| It is mountain effluvia | G |
| Moving to valleys | H |
| And from nation to nation | F |
| Crossing borders and mixing | I |
| Languages die like rivers | J |
| Words wrapped round your tongue today | K |
| And broken to shape of thought | L |
| Between your teeth and lips speaking | I |
| Now and today | K |
| Shall be faded hieroglyphics | M |
| Ten thousand years from now | N |
| Sing and singing remember | O |
| Your song dies and changes | P |
| And is not here to morrow | Q |
| Any more than the wind | R |
| Blowing ten thousand years ago | Q |
Carl Sandburg
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