Localities Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC BBDEDEB BFG BGBB DBBHBEIBBDJEKL| A | |
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| Wagon wheel gap is a place I never saw | B |
| And Red Horse Gulch and the chutes of Cripple Creek | C |
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| Red shirted miners picking in the sluices | B |
| Gamblers with red neckties in the night streets | B |
| The fly by night towns of Bull Frog and Skiddoo | D |
| The night cool limestone white of Death Valley | E |
| The straight drop of eight hundred feet | D |
| From a shelf road in the Hasiampa Valley | E |
| Men and places they are I never saw | B |
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| I have seen three White Horse taverns | B |
| One in Illinois one in Pennsylvania | F |
| One in a timber hid road of Wisconsin | G |
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| I bought cheese and crackers | B |
| Between sun showers in a place called White Pigeon | G |
| Nestling with a blacksmith shop a post office | B |
| And a berry crate factory where four roads cross | B |
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| On the Pecatonica River near Freeport | D |
| I have seen boys run barefoot in the leaves | B |
| Throwing clubs at the walnut trees | B |
| In the yellow and gold of autumn | H |
| And there was a brown mash dry on the inside of their hands | B |
| On the Cedar Fork Creek of Knox County | E |
| I know how the fingers of late October | I |
| Loosen the hazel nuts | B |
| I know the brown eyes of half open hulls | B |
| I know boys named Lindquist Swanson Hildebrand | D |
| I remember their cries when the nuts were ripe | J |
| And some are in machine shops some are in the navy | E |
| And some are not on payrolls anywhere | K |
| Their mothers are through waiting for them to come home | L |
Carl Sandburg
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