Leather Leggings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEFGBDDBDH IJDKLMN OPQM RRSTUDVDDW| THEY have taken the ball of earth | A |
| and made it a little thing | B |
| - | |
| They were held to the land and horses | C |
| they were held to the little seas | D |
| They have changed and shaped and welded | E |
| they have broken the old tools and made | F |
| new ones they are ranging the white | G |
| scarves of cloudland they are bumping | B |
| the sunken bells of the Carthaginians | D |
| and Ph nicians | D |
| they are handling | B |
| the strongest sea | D |
| as a thing to be handled | H |
| - | |
| The earth was a call that mocked | I |
| it is belted with wires and meshed with | J |
| steel from Pittsburg to Vladivostok is | D |
| an iron ride on a moving house from | K |
| Jerusalem to Tokyo is a reckoned span | L |
| and they talk at night in the storm and | M |
| salt the wind and the war | N |
| - | |
| They have counted the miles to the Sun | O |
| and Canopus they have weighed a small | P |
| blue star that comes in the southeast | Q |
| corner of the sky on a foretold errand | M |
| - | |
| We shall search the sea again | R |
| We shall search the stars again | R |
| There are no bars across the way | S |
| There is no end to the plan and the clue | T |
| the hunt and the thirst | U |
| The motors are drumming the leather leggings | D |
| and the leather coats wait | V |
| Under the sea | D |
| and out to the stars | D |
| we go | W |
Carl Sandburg
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