Long Guns Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDA EFGHADBA IJJKLAIA| THEN came Oscar the time of the guns | A |
| And there was no land for a man no land for a country | B |
| Unless guns sprang up | C |
| And spoke their language | D |
| The how of running the world was all in guns | A |
| - | |
| The law of a God keeping sea and land apart | E |
| The law of a child sucking milk | F |
| The law of stars held together | G |
| They slept and worked in the heads of men | H |
| Making twenty mile guns sixty mile guns | A |
| Speaking their language | D |
| Of no land for a man no land for a country | B |
| Unless guns unless guns | A |
| - | |
| There was a child wanted the moon shot off the sky | I |
| asking a long gun to get the moon | J |
| to conquer the insults of the moon | J |
| to conquer something anything | K |
| to put it over and win the day | L |
| To show them the running of the world was all in guns | A |
| There was a child wanted the moon shot off the sky | I |
| They dreamed in the time of the guns of guns | A |
Carl Sandburg
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