Losers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD E FG HI FJF KBL MNO| IF I should pass the tomb of Jonah | A |
| I would stop there and sit for awhile | B |
| Because I was swallowed one time deep in the dark | C |
| And came out alive after all | D |
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| If I pass the burial spot of Nero | E |
| I shall say to the wind 'Well well ' | - |
| I who have fiddled in a world on fire | F |
| I who have done so many stunts not worth doing | G |
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| I am looking for the grave of Sinbad too | H |
| I want to shake his ghost hand and say | I |
| 'Neither of us died very early did we ' | - |
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| And the last sleeping place of Nebuchadnezzar | F |
| When I arrive there I shall tell the wind | J |
| 'You ate grass I have eaten crow | F |
| Who is better off now or next year ' | - |
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| Jack Cade John Brown Jesse James | K |
| There too I could sit down and stop for awhile | B |
| I think I could tell their headstones | L |
| 'God let me remember all good losers ' | - |
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| I could ask people to throw ashes on their heads | M |
| In the name of that sergeant at Belleau Woods | N |
| Walking into the drumfires calling his men | O |
| 'Come on you Do you want to live forever ' | - |
Carl Sandburg
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